London - It looks like a futuristic craft from the children’s TV series Thunderbirds, but the sleek design could actually be for a Concorde-2 hypersonic airliner.
The designs are based on a patent awarded to Airbus, which describes a craft that climbs vertically into the air before breaking the sound barrier as it travels horizontally across the sky.
Dubbed Concorde-2 because it would be much faster and quieter than the retired supersonic jet, the plane is designed to have a top speed of Mach 4.5, meaning a journey from New York to London would take just one hour.
Airbus hopes its planned hypersonic jet, which would travel at 4.5 times the speed of sound, could take people between two major cities faster than most daily commutes.
Daily Mail
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