How the Venus Aerospace Stargazer hypersonic jet could look on a test flight (Picture: Venus Aerospace)
It is over 20 years since Concorde’s last flight, and since then the idea of supersonic flight has mostly been grounded.
Many countries have blocked planes from travelling at such high speed due to the disturbance from noisy sonic booms when they break the sound barrier, and the technology is expensive with tickets historically out of reach for all but the richest.
But now interest is again taking off in super speedy planes, and this time they could be more than twice as fast as Concorde.
Last week, startup engineering company Venus Aerospace unveiled an engine it says is capable of super high speed ‘hypersonic’ flight.
This means reaching speeds over five times the speed of sound, so basically an even more powerful version of supersonic, which Concord was.
Source:: Metro
