The dream for airline passengers and aerospace engineers alike is the day when it takes only a couple of hours to fly from London to New York.
Eight years since the demise of Concorde, the prospect of supersonic travel seems to be getting further away as fuel consumption, carbon emissions and noise regulations have forced pragmatism on the industry’s dreamers. The talk of the Paris Air Show last week was of biofuel and fuel efficiency rather than supersonic travel.
However, tucked away amid the hundreds of small aerospace companies that were exhibiting at the show was a British business that is developing a radical new engine concept. HyperMach wants to build an aircraft — the Sonic Star — that it believes will be able to