Bombardier Inc. is a Canadian multinational aerospace and transportation company, founded by Joseph-Armand Bombardier in the Eastern Townships, Quebec.
Aircraft concept, dubbed the Skreemr, is the brainchild of Charles Bombardier, an engineer and inventor. Bombardier’s latest design describes a passenger aircraft that can travel at 10 times the speed of sound, or just under 8,000 mph.
To reach its incredible Mach 10 speed, the Skreemr jet would have to take off from a “magnetic rail-gun launching system,” Bombardier explained in a recent column for The Globe and Mail. Rail guns consist of two conductive rails that produce an electromagnetic field that can propel a vehicle forward at high speed .
Defence company BAE Systems has bought a 20 per cent share in Reaction Engines, an Oxfordshire company developing engines able to power aircraft at 2,500mph and into space. During summer NASA announced it would make sufficient funding available to a number of institutions to cover years of research into supersonic flight.
Elsewhere Boston-based engineering firm Spike Aerospace is pushing forward with plans to launch Spike S-512, an 18-seater commercial supersonic jet that would reach speeds of Mach 1.6 (1,100mph). At this speed it would take three hours to fly between London and New York. The company anticipates each aircraft, built without windows in the fuselage to reduce and maintain speeds.
As for Skreemr’s rockets it would keep the plane climbing in altitude and would thrust it forward at speeds reaching Mach 4 . Finally, the plane’s scramjet engine would ignite, burning up hydrogen and compressed oxygen to propel the plane forward at speeds surpassing Mach 10 (more than 7,600 mph).
Like regular jet engines, scramjet (short for supersonic combusting ramjet) engines combine liquid fuel with oxygen to create thrust, according to NASA. But in a scramjet engine, oxygen doesn’t come from a tank onboard the aircraft; it comes from the atmosphere that is passing through the vehicle as it moves through the air.
Even though supersonic commercial travel is a long way off from replacing conventional transportation, the race is on. Earlier this month, Airbus patented design concepts for the Concorde-2, which could travel at speeds in excess of Mach 4.
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