A SUPERSONIC plane that promises to be the next generation of commercial travel could carry 300 passengers in ultra-lux flights.
Designed by Oscar Viñals from Barcelona, Spain, the spaceship-like aircraft looks like something straight out of Star Wars.
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The aircraft, named Sky OV, would be able to reach a top speed of Mach 1.5 – around 1,150mph – and be powered by electricity at no cost to the environment.
Its ultramodern features include retractile wings and even a translucent ceiling.
Oscar told The Sun: “The design of this concept is a mix between future commercial and military projects based on new fuselage’ shapes, engines and construction materials.”
The Spaniard, who designs futuristic planes full-time, wanted to give his “personal vision” to the more conventional aeronautical and aerospace plane concepts.
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“There are so many things that make Sky OV unique,” he said.
“Its blade-less engines, the translucent ceiling with quantum solar dots as a part of its fuselage or its capacity to fold the wings.
“The plane is also quiet, faster than current commercial aircraft, completely green, zero emissions and capable of covering very long distances.”
Oscar said he already has a military version of Sky OV in his drafts – but is still a far away reality.
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“These types of conceptual projects require a large amount of financing and technologies that today only exist in laboratories,” he explained.
The Sky OV is Oscar’s latest design since he came up with a super-jet that would surpass the speed and size of the legendary Concorde.
Hyper Sting is a concept plane that could whizz passengers from London to New York City in just 80 minutes in the near future.
The plane would travel at a speed of 2,486mph – twice as fast as Concorde.
Measuring 328 feet long with a 168-foot wingspan, the aircraft is also nearly twice its size.
The designer said 170 passengers could enjoy travel aboard the Hyper Sting.
“Concorde was a brilliant piece of machinery, a noble experiment, but it put too many emissions in the environment, too much noise into our communities, and was too expensive to operate,” Oscar told The Sun.
“A new era of supersonic flight might be just around the corner, but there are challenges to overcome when it comes to flying faster than the speed of sound.
“Today, there are some projects for a new era of supersonic flights from different private and public initiatives, some of those are well underway and could become in a few years a real concept.”
Oscar added that the name Hyper Sting is influenced by the shape of the aircraft.
“The fuselage would have the shape of a ‘big sting’ with a very sharp ‘nose,’ that would have the function to control the front airflow in order to redistribute it over the central part and over the wings,” he said.
In 2018, Oscar also designed the Magnavem superplane that promises to cut the flight time from London to New York in half.
The aircraft – named “Magnavem” meaning “big bird” by its creator – would receive its power from a compact fusion reactor, using a process similar to the one that keeps the sun burning.
It would also feature a CO2 cleaning system to add to its environmental friendliness.
And due to its advanced internal technology, it could be charged very quickly at its destination.
Having worked on the plans for over a year, Oscar said his plane could carry around 500 passengers, and once certain technologies are more widely available, could be ready for manufacture in 10 to 15 years.
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“The response has been totally positive. I am very happy with this,” he said.
“I am most excited about the possibility to use a CFR (compact fusion reactor) with the benefits of inexhaustible power and great amounts of energy production.”
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