This is What the Future Airliners Will Probably Look Like

#4 – Bombardier Antipode

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The UK isn’t the only one to come up with hypersonic aerospace designs, the Canadian company, Bombardier, developed their concept business jet “the Antipode”. At top speed, this small airplane can fly from NY to London is just eleven minutes!

Unlike the A2, the Antipode uses an improved version of the normal ramjet engine, called the scramjet engine. The latter doesn’t have any moving parts, like compressors or fans, but rather forces air through the engine based on the speed of the airplane. Isn’t this amazing!

So once the Antipode gets to cruising speed and altitude, the scramjet would accelerate the vehicle to top speed (Mach 24) but to launch off the ground, the speedy jet would use rocket boosters.

It is still debated if the Antipode will ever see the light, but its concepts are interesting enough to probably be used in the production of future airliners.

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