Hypersonic jet could fly from NY to London in 11 minutes

The wings of the concept aircraft will be installed with rocket boosters, which will boost the aircraft to 40,000 feet and subsequently achieve Mach 5 position.

Despite its appeal, the futuristic jet had a few shortcomings – most pressingly the craft’s inability to mitigate the resulting sonic boom and that it would accumulate on its nose and wings upon rapidly accelerating.

“I wanted to create an aircraft concept capable of reaching its antipode – or diametrical opposite – as fast as possible”, Bombardier told Forbes.

The rockets will then separate from the plane and fly back to the base.

If a jet flies at speeds of Mach 24, it will be prone to some major overheating problems.

“The Antipode is a supersonic business aircraft concept capable of reaching 16,000 miles per hour”.

The design follows Bombardier’s previous hypersonic jet concept, the Skreemr, which set travellers’ tongues wagging with the vision of catapulting passengers at Mach 10 using a magnetic railgun-style system to fling the aircraft into the sky and then use liquid-oxygen rockets to hit high speeds.

Charles Bombardier, the engineer behind the Skreemr jet has unveiled another radical, much faster design for future air travel. After reaching Mach 5, the on-board programmed computers would ignite its supersonic combustion ramjet engine and accelerate up to Mach 24 at an altitude of 40,000 feet. It could take years and even decades before the Antipode could become a reality. The stable and reliable supersonic scramjet engine required to reach Mach 24 hasn’t even been mastered by NASA yet. “During time-sensitive crises, it would transport highly ranked officials across the globe in a matter of hours”, explains Bombardier on his website. The leading edge of the wings of the aircraft could also be fitted with linear nozzles so that air could flow out of them too.

While the concept was made by Mr Bombardier, the rendered images was created by Abhishek Roy from Lunatic Koncepts in India.

As for the price tag, the cost of producing the Antipode would be less than that of the Skreemr since it would be smaller and use existing technology. The idea is that small openings at the front of the aircraft would suck in air to cool the body while also lessening the “sonic boom” that would occur when the plane broke the sound barrier.