A Canadian-based industrial designer named- Charles Bombardier has proposed the hypersonic jet called the “Antipode”. Antipode would travel 18,414 miles per hour. There are three primary factors when it comes to air travel and also defines the state of the art.
The three factors are – speed, capacity and comfort. It takes extremely wealthy passengers within a short span of time and reaches their destination safely. The industrial designer said that he wanted to create an aircraft that would fly faster than all the other aircraft.
Boeing Dreamliners and Airbus A380s have been heavy strides in the issue of commercial aircraft speed ever since the legendary Concorde has made her maiden flight in the year 1969 which sparked an excellent excitement at the prospect of faster than commercial travelling.
It has an excellent rocket booster attached to its wings that can reach 40,000 feet height before breaking off from accelerators. The aircraft’s onboard computer once separated, ignites a supersonic ramjet engine that can accelerate to a top speed of Mach 24.
At the front side of the craft, there is a nozzle that lets air flow and creates a counterflow of jet air that causes LPM, Long Penetration Mode. This LPM reduces heat on the surface of the aircraft and temper the shock wave when Antipode breaks the sound barrier. The jet aircraft could make New York to Mumbai run in less than half an hour.
The following is the distance of the jet aircraft that reaches its destination-
- New York to Paris (3,625 miles) travels in just 12 minutes
- New York to London (3,459 miles) → 11 minutes
- New York to Dubai (6,836 miles) → 22 minutes
- New York to Tokyo (6,737 miles) → 22 minutes