Soon the trip from London to New York can be a real easiness and pleasure that lasts only two and half hours if designer Oscar Viñals’ supersonic aircraft ever touch the skies. Viñals’ project, called Flash Falcon, is double-decker plane with capacity of 250 passangers which would reach a top speed of Mach 3 (approximately 2,300mph) or three times the speed of sound. Business passengers would sit on top while the main deck would still provide passengers more space than average aircrafts do today.
Oscar Viñals’ Aircraft Could Fly From London To NYC In 2.5 Hours
The plane would be eco-friendly as well, running on carbon-free energy and electro-combustion engines (known as star jet engines) that would tilt to allow the plane to take off or land vertically, like a helicopter. The plane’s needle-shaped noise would help keep the noise from sonic booms down and improve aerodynamics.
“I believe that in a very near future supersonic flights will return, but with the most significant technology and advances of the 21st century,” Viñals said. “This aeroplane would belong to a hypothetical generation that would be equipped with technology based on fusion energy, the future green energy, which today can only be found under development, but in the next 15 years it could become a feasible reality…”
