If you're tired with the current state of flights, better days may come in the future: A Canadian engineer has unveiled a concept for a supersonic scramjet that could travel from London to New York in just half an hour in a trip that normally would last 7 hours and 30 minutes.
Per Second News gathered that the jet will travel at 10 times the speed of sound.
The Skreemr jet was designed by inventor Charles Bombardier, who explained how it would take no more than 75 passengers to fly between continents at record speeds in a media post.
The aircraft four wings, two rockets and a liquid-oxygen burning system would allow the scramjet to hit more than 7,600 mph, blowing the Concorde out of the water.
Safe to say there wouldn't be time for a beverage cart.
The only supersonic airliner in direct competition with the Skreemr was the Concorde jet that was rested by airliners in the U.K, U.S and France in 2003.
Concorde was normally perceived as a privilege of the rich, but special circular or one-way (with return by other flight or ship) charter flights were arranged to bring a trip within the means of moderately well-off enthusiasts.
The aircraft was usually referred to by the British as simply "Concorde". In France it was known as "le Concorde" due to "le", the definite article.
Concorde was jointly developed and produced by Aerospatiale and the british Aircraft Corporation (BAC) under an Anglo-French treaty.
The Condorde's fastest transatlantic airliner flight was from New York to London on 7 February 1996 by British Airways' G-BOAD in 2 hours, 52 minutes, 59 seconds from takeoff to touchdown aided by a 175 mph (282 km/h) tailwind.
On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, registration F-BTSC, crashed in Gonesse, France after departing from Paris en route to New York, killing all 100 passengers and nine crew members on board the flight, and four people on the ground. It was the only fatal accident involving Concorde.
According to the official investigation conducted by the Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile (BEA), the crash was caused by a metallic strip that fell from a Continental Airlines DC-10 that had taken off minutes earlier. This fragment punctured a tyre on Concorde's left main wheel bogie during takeoff. The tyre exploded, and a piece of rubber hit the fuel tank, which caused a fuel leak and led to a fire. The crew shut down engine number 2 in response to a fire warning, and with engine number 1 surging and producing little power, the aircraft was unable to gain altitude or speed. The aircraft entered a rapid pitch-up then a violent descent, rolling left and crashing tail-low into the Hôtelissimo Les Relais Bleus Hotel in Gonesse.
On 6 December 2010, Continental Airlines and John Taylor, one of their mechanics, were found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but on 30 November 2012 a French court overturned the conviction, saying mistakes by Continental and Taylor did not make them criminally responsible.
Prior to the accident, Concorde had been arguably the safest operational passenger airliner in the world in passenger deaths-per-kilometres travelled with zero, but had a rate of tyre damage some 30 times higher than subsonic airliners from 1995 to 2000.
On 10 April 2003, Air France and British Airways simultaneously announced that they would retire Concorde later that year. They cited low passenger numbers following the 25 July 2000 crash, the decline in air travel following the 911 attacks, and rising maintenance costs.
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