New British supersonic jet will fly London to New York in two hours
A British firm has revealed plans for supersonic plane that will travel twice as fast Concorde, and dramatically slash travelling times.
Hypermach unveiled its plans for the SonicStar aircraft at the Paris Air Show, and claims the plane will be able to travel from London to New York in just two hours.
Meanwhile, a trip from New York to Sydney will be cut by a whopping 75% - from 20 hours to just five.
HyperMach plans to build its engine by the end of the decade and to have the plane itself constructed by 2025.
The 20-seat plane will be able to cruise at Mach 3.1, a speed made possible by S-MAGJET hybrid gas turbine engine technology; nobody has ever travelled that fast before.
Its top speed will be Mach 3.6.
With relatively low fuel consumption, the Sonic Star 'overcomes the economic and environmental challenges of supersonic flight to revolutionise the way we travel and drive air transportation forward into the future,' claims HyperMach.
By using electromagnetic currents across the fuselage to suppress the sonic boom, the plane is able to overcome the noise regulations that constrict supersonic travel.
It has a range of 6,000 nautical miles and its 54,700 thrust class S-MAGJET engine - actually two engines - is optimised to fly the aircraft at 62,000ft.
But it is the reduction in jet engine emissions that HyperMach believes will prove the secret of SonicStar's success.
The company said its fuel efficiency would ultimately lead to a 30 to 35% reduction in fuel used at supersonic speeds.
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