HYPERSONIC JET WORTH $30,000,000 COULD SOON TRAVEL PASSENGERS FROM NEW YORK TO LONDON IN AN HOUR

Potentially worth millions of dollars, a brand-new hypersonic jet could soon revolutionise long-distance travel. While many of us have the desire to travel the world, most of us find it to be an arduous and unattainable goal.

Beyond the expense, those who have trouble with extended flights may find the duration of the journey across continents to be extremely taxing. On the other hand, a completely new jetliner is presently under development, and it is anticipated to drastically reduce the duration of long-distance travel. Venus Aerospace, a Texas-based company, is currently building the Stargazer and its supercharged engine to make the world's fastest passenger aircraft.

It is estimated that the jet will be able to reach 4,600 mph if it is developed. This would surpass the speed of the now-retired Concorde, one of the fastest supersonic airliners ever, by slightly over 2,500 mph, making it the fastest passenger plane in the world as well as the fastest aircraft ever built.

The best way to gauge this speed is to compare the time it takes to fly from New York City to London across the Atlantic Ocean. The Stargazer would take less than an hour, compared to the typical time of about seven hours.

But this incredible innovation also comes at an absurdly high cost; to build the Stargazer and its engine—dubbed the Venus Detonation Ramjet 2000 lb Thrust Engine, or VDR2 for short—the Venus Aerospace team has raised $33 million.

"We can't wait to dig in, make the first one fly, and ultimately perfect an engine concept that has lived mostly in textbooks but never as a production unit in the air," stated Eric Briggs, COO of Valentra, a company that has recently partnered with Venus Aerospace.

The jet's actual timeline is still unknown, but the engine should be ready for testing very soon. When a hypersonic test drone flies in the sky for the first time in 2025, the usefulness of the VDR2 will be formally revealed.

The Stargazer is not the only high-speed aircraft under development; NASA and Boom Supersonic are also working on supersonic aircraft that are comparable to the Stargazer, albeit a little slower.

However this incredible innovation also comes at an absurdly high cost; to build the Stargazer and its engine—dubbed the Venus Detonation Ramjet 2000 lb Thrust Engine, or VDR2 for short—the Venus Aerospace team has raised $33 million.