The Antipode: supersonic business jet makes London to New York in just 11 mins

(Charles Bombardier/imaginactive.org)The Antipode, a supersonic business aircraft concept by Canadian inventor Charles Bombardier.

In just 11 minutes, it is now possible to fly from London to New York via a supersonic business jet called the Antipode.

Travelling at a speed of Mach 24 or 24 times faster than the speed of sound, this new business aircraft design by Canadian inventor Charles Bombardier can transport passengers from London to New York in 11 minutes and New York to Sydney in 30 minutes, Telegraph UK reports.

According to CNN, the Antipode, which flies 12 times faster than the 2003 turbojet-powered supersonic passenger jet, the Concorde, is capable of carrying not more than 10 passengers at 23,427 miles per hour.

The man behind this futuristic design is an industrial engineer and an entrepreneur of the Canadian multinational aerospace and transportation company, Bombardier Inc.

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

Apparently, the Antipode is not his first supersonic aircraft design. Last year, he also conceptualized another high-speed plane that could travel at Mach 10, which is dubbed as the Skreemr, according to a separate report from Telegraph UK. It can carry 75 passengers at 7,673 miles per hour.

The Antipode, like the Skreemr, would be equipped with a scramjet engine which virtually has no moving parts, unlike the common jet engines. It would propel to 40,000 feet through its rocket boosters wings that utilizes the oxygen from the atmosphere, eliminating the need to carry tanks of oxygen.

"The cost of producing the Antipode would be less than that of the Skreemr since it would be smaller and use existing technology," Bombardier told Forbes. "But it would still cost a lot more than any business jet on the market today."

Although it's a promising invention, the scramjet engine still has not been developed. In fact, CNN reports that NASA hasn't even built a stable scramjet yet. However, The Pentagon was able to launch a small, unmanned scramjet at a speed of Mach 5 last 2013.

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