Journey time slashed on the new ‘Concorde’
A NEW “Concorde” will cut the flight time from London to Australia in half.
Boom Supersonic will send passengers Down Under, flying at 60,000ft, in just 12 hours by 2025.
And Brits will be able to zoom across the pond to New York in around three hours.
The Mach 2.2 will lead the race as the next super-fast passenger jet.
A test version of the
1,687mph plane is now being built.
It could break the speed of sound next year from a spaceport in California.
Owner Blake Scholl, right, said: “We have made incredible progress over the past year.
“We now have the engines in our hangar, the demo aircraft is under fabrication and we are on track to fly our demonstrator towards the end of next year.”
The three-engined jet will soar between destinations such as Tokyo-San Francisco and Sydney-Los Angeles.
But it will also fly from London to Sydney, reducing the current tortuous
23-hour plus journey. Virgin Atlantic has already been announced as the first launch customer of Boom, followed by Japan Airlines.
The jet will feature plush interiors and boast large personal windows, spacious legroom, plenty of storage space and bigger seats.
Mr Scholl said it will have “ultra fast wi-fi”.
Yet the most important thing for Boom’s founder is the end of so-called “red-eye flights” – where planes leave late at night and arrive early the next day, leaving passengers with sore eyes. “Mach 2.2 is really important to us because that’s what makes you take red-eye flights and turn them into pleasant daytime flights,” he said. “So, for example, from New York to London today takes you seven hours and you fly with red eyes – and it is pretty painful.
“But at Mach 2.2, you can catch the first flight of the day from New York and be in London at 2.15pm, get business done and be back in the States the same day.”