It’s raining supersonics. There were none for the last eight years, and all of a sudden there are two.
Following EAD’s announcement on the first day of Paris Air Show, Hyper Mach has said that it will launch SonicStar, an aircraft that will cut the journey time between New York and Dubai to 2 hours, 20 minutes, CNN reported.
Interestingly, unlike EAD’s Zero Emission Hyper Sonic Transport (ZEHST), which is expect to fly by 2050, has promised a SonicStar flight by 2021.
While ZEHST will use biofuel and will fly at Mach 4 (5,000 kmh), the SonicStar can go up to 3.6 Mach.
However, the latter like the Concorde would be off the common man’s limit as it will have 20 passenger “VVIP accomodation, ZEHST is promising to be the holidaymaker’s dream as it won’t require any training and would open for public.
The SonicStar, is billed by its creators Hyper Mach as "the future in flight." It will fly at twice the speed of Concorde and allow passengers to fly around the globe in under five hours.
Hyper Mach CEO Richard Lugg said the plane would make "the other side of the world feel like it's just down the road."
Lugg told reporters he had been inspired as a youngster watching the maiden voyage of Concorde, and had made it his "life's work" to come up with the next generation of hypersonic aircraft.
This is being done with an eye to the future, but it has its feet firmly rooted in solid scientific research.
Richard Lugg , CEO Hyper Mach
It also promises reduced emissions and low noise. New technology means it will not create the "sonic boom" its predecessor was known for.
"This is being done with an eye to the future, but it has its feet firmly rooted in solid scientific research," Lugg insists.
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