The “Son of Concorde” is a hypersonic airliner, with liquid hydrogen-powered engines, that can reportedly reach speeds of up to Mach 5 — carrying 300 passengers. Click here for one more picture.
It’s designed to leave Brussels International Airport, fly quietly and sub-sonically out into the North Atlantic at about Mach 0.9 before reaching Mach 5 across the North Pole and heading down over the Pacific to Australia. The total flight time from Brussels to Australia allowing for air traffic control would be four hours and forty minutes
[via DailyMail]
