Imagine a 10-seater private jet that uses rocket boosters to take off, detaches these at an altitude of 12km, fires its supersonic engines to hit speeds of Mach 24 (20,000 km/h), and gets you from New York to London in 11 minutes.
That’s the idea behind the Antipode, a next-level concept jet by Canadian inventor and engineer, Charles Bombardier. The concept comes just months after Bombardier unveiled his designs for the Skreemr, a four-winged scramjet that could carry 75 passengers at speeds of up to Mach 10 - so, 10 times the speed of sound and five times faster than today’s Concorde jets.
How's 20,000 km/h sound?
Can't say about Charles Bombardier personally, but I am suspicious because the great genius of his family is in obtaining taxpayer subsidies for their business.
ReplyDeleteAnd this stuff smells like it needs lots and lots of that great greasy government grant lubrication.
Yep, a lot of these great ideas are just pipe dreams. Very expensive to develop and very unlikely to yield a justifiable return on investment.
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