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The plane of Charles Bombardier still faces many challenges before it is feasible

A Canadian inventor seems to have found a solution to the endless flights to cross the Atlantic or the Pacific:. an airplane able to travel 24 times faster than sound, which would take its passengers from London to New York in just 11 minutes

conceptual design of the Charles Bombardier engineer shows a plane called Antipode, with four wings and a capacity for 10 passengers, which would use rocket engines to take off. The private jet was designed for executives and world leaders.

The Antipode design comes just months after Bombardier has unveiled its concept for another ultra-fast plane, SkreemR. The SkreemR would have capacity for 75 passengers and would make the journey from London to New York in half an hour. But since at the time Bombarbier highlighted the main problem of this project:. There is plenty of material resistant to heat generated when traveling at speeds several times higher than the sound

The SkreemR depended on the propulsion scramjet , a type of engine that runs through the extracted liquid oxygen combustion from the atmosphere as it passes through the ship. By not having to carry fuel, a plane so it becomes lighter and faster. The problem is the speed needed to make an engine of these work, who would become uncomfortable for passengers and cause difficulties for materials due to heat.

Bombardier seems to have solved at least the second part of the problem with the Antipode . This new concept of air has the ability to use cold air jets for cooling the front of the aircraft and wings. Air intakes on the “nose” of the aircraft allow the entry of these jets to roam the body of the plane and cool down.

But as its inventor admitted in an interview with Forbes magazine, Antipode also has its problems . For example, the plane in the air intakes work well in ships like space shuttles, but are very good to cool the Antipode because it has wings. “The current Antipode configuration has the ideal medium in this aspect,” said Charles Bombardier.