'Son Of Concorde' Could Fly To New York In An Hour (1 Viewer)

[Christo]

According to documents filed with the US Patents Office, the new super jet would fly from London to New York in just one hour

The European aerospace giant Airbus has filed patents for a new supersonic jet that bears a strong resemblance to Concorde.

Dubbed the 'son of Concorde', it would be capable of reaching four times the speed of sound - or 2,500 mph.

That means a flight from London to New York would take just one hour - roughly the same as a train journey from London to Brighton in Sussex.

Airbus says the new aircraft would primarily be for "business travel and VIP passengers, who require transcontinental return journeys within one day”.

It also foresees the military using it for strategic reconnaissance and "ultra-rapid transport of high added-value goods or elite commandos".

Documents lodged with the US Patent Office describe Concorde mark 2 as an "ultra-rapid air vehicle".

It would take off almost vertically, like a Space Shuttle, and cruise at more than 100,000ft, carrying 20 passengers for distances of up to 5,500 miles.

The aircraft would re-enter normal air space as it approached its destination before landing.

The original Concorde was built by Airbus' forerunner Aerospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation.

It flew at 1,350mph - more than twice the speed of sound - at an altitude of 60,000ft and carried up to 120 passengers.

The first flight took place in 1976 and it was withdrawn from service in 2003 after a crash in Paris three years earlier.

One of the problems with the original Concorde was the amount of noise it made when breaking the sound barrier.

This led to it being banned from flying over land by many countries and restricted its operations.

But Airbus says the new craft's aerodynamics will limit sonic boom and make it more acceptable.

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http://news.sky.com/story/1530374/son-of-concorde-could-fly-to-new-york-in-an-hour

Vrooooooooooooooooooooooooom!

 

[Otis]

Rules

 

[Guest]

Disintegrates upon seagull.

 

[comfortably numb]

Mr Goodell, buy 3 of these and you can now move the Jaguars to London.

 

[Insein]

Skyranger

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Mr Goodell, buy 3 of these and you can now move the Jaguars to London.

*Jag-U-Wahrz

 

[Evilgrin 72]

Also currently ranks third on the "Son of.." VBD list, behind Sam and Baconator.

 

[comfortably numb]

Also currently ranks third on the "Son of.." VBD list, behind Sam and Baconator.

Eating one now!

Is Wendy's trying to send people into a coma with all the salt they put on their fries??

 

[Rayderr]

Of course a patent doesn't mean that the item they are patenting exists or even works.

 

[Foosball God]

Also currently ranks third on the "Son of.." VBD list, behind Sam and Baconator.

Son of a ##### down?

 

[bagger]

I'm pretty confident I could draw a better plane than that.

glad to see the guy has expanded his career into plane design.

 

[Foosball God]

And that drawing doesn't look anything like a Concord. If I was a Concord I'd be getting a DNA test.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

Also currently ranks third on the "Son of.." VBD list, behind Sam and Baconator.

Son of a ##### down?

1.4

 

[Kal El]

Just Mach 4? Why not make it Mach 5, since that's considered hypersonic, and it sounds really cool.

 

[El Floppo]

And that drawing doesn't look anything like a Concord. If I was a Concord I'd be getting a DNA test.

looks like a paper airplane.

 

[E Street Brat]

And that drawing doesn't look anything like a Concord. If I was a Concord I'd be getting a DNA test.

Concord. You are NOT the father.

 

[sbonomo]

Good god, how much is this ticket going to be? If memory serves me a buddy of mine in college flew on the concord for $10K per person (i think the first class ticket at that time was like $1,500). $15-$20K per seat?

 

[Dickies]

I'm pretty confident I could draw poop a better plane than that.

fixed

 

[grateful zed]

goodbye ozone

 

[BowieMercs]

goodbye ozone

I want to ship our ground level ozone to Australia. They need it more than we do. Then we can ditch those pesky emissions inspections.

 

[SWC]

that baby could get you from milwaukee to detroit in about eight minutes so that means like nine minutes after leaving milwaukee you would be asking yourself what in the hell made you go to detroit but on the plus side in about another nine minutes you could be out of detroit so that is cool take that to the bank brohans