After the Concorde 2.0, the Boom Overture and the Mach 3, designed by Rolls-Royce and Virgin Galactic, we are all wondering who else will join the race for supersonic aircraft. Spanish industrial designer Oscar Vinal answers this question and introduces us Hyperpuncture.
A revolutionary supersonic aircraft concept that promises to change the aeronautical landscape by flying three times the speed of sound and transporting more than 100 passengers from one continent to another in less than two hours.
What makes The Hyper Sting special?
The hyper stinger (from its Spanish translation) is a state-of-the-art supersonic aircraft capable of carrying 170 passengers from New York to London in 80 minutes. This would mean that Oscar Viñals’ concept would be nearly twice as large and travel twice as fast as the last commercial airliner, the Concorde (which stopped flying in 2003).
To do this, the Hyper Sting would use a fully aerodynamic design, using its tip to control forward airflow and redistribute wave fronts with the rest of the fuselage.
Although the greatest advancement of this concept is a rnuclear actor of cold fusion capable of powering two ramjet engines and four hybrid turbojets controlled by artificial intelligence, which will help it to exceed three times the speed of sound.
The Hyper Sting would have a length of 100 meters and a wingspan of 51 meters, but it would certainly change the aviation industry forever and outperform the competition in terms of energy consumption and emissions.
But to be a reality, it still has a long way to go. According to the designer Oscar Vinal While a new era of supersonic flight may seem just around the corner, there are many details and challenges to overcome.
As its creator points out, thanks to some of its innovative systems such as the cold fusion reactor, the production date of The Hyper Sting could be later 2030 and obviously the cost would not be low.
Whatever the fate of this super plane, like many we are excited to see more and more concepts and models taking shape in the future.
