Supersonic Space Craft patented by Airbus

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Airbus just improved its supersonic jet. Lets check that out.

In July earlier this year, Airbus received a patent on a supersonic aircraft that could reach New York from London in 1 hour. This week, Airbus filed a patent application on an important improvement to their supersonic aircraft.

The supersonic aircraft has a rocket engine at the back of the fuselage. It also has two turbojets laterally arranged near the rear of the fuselage. Once the aircraft climbs to a certain altitude, the turbo jets are powered off and the rocket engine is ignited at full power causing the aircraft to travel vertically like a rocket at supersonic speeds. Because of this vertical trajectory, the energy of the supersonic boom is dissipated in all horizontal radial directions and does not encounter the ground. At this point of time, the turbo jets cause lot of drag. Therefore, flaps placed in front of the inlets of the turbo-jets are activated. The flaps cover the inlets, thereby reducing the drag considerably.

After reaching a very high altitude, the aircraft curves into a horizontal trajectory at which point the rocket engine is powered off and closed by a door to make it streamlined. Thereafter, the flaps can be retracted and the turbojets can be ignited to propel the aircraft horizontally at supersonic speeds.

The fact that there is another patent application on the same technology, it indicates that Airbus is seriously working on this aircraft. So expect to have this in use quite soon.

Patent Information:
Patent Application No. 20150344158
Title: SPACE AIRCRAFT
Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS (Les Mureaux, FR)
Inventors: Ferreira, Eugénio (Toulouse, FR); Prampolini, Marco (Chambourcy, FR); Coraboeuf, Yohann (Merignac, FR)
Application Number: 14/763299
Publication Date: 12/03/2015
Filing Date: 01/17/2014
International Classes: B64G1/40; B64G1/14

Abstract: According to the invention, said space aircraft comprises, at the front of each of the air inlets of the turbo engines, a mobile flap that can move, in both directions, between a first position for which said flap opens said air inlet and a second position for which said flap prevents air from entering said air inlet.

[johngillespie]

Adding machines to the front of rockets and jets that blast out sonic waves would reduce air drag on these vehicles. By blasting out high intensity sonic waves in front of the craft will scramble the air molecules and reduce wind resistance/friction on a craft and thus make the aircraft/rockets travel at tremendous speeds and save a lot on fuel with less wind resistance/drag.

[Homoprimatesapiens]

I really dont hope the real concept design looks like that 400 mph kind of airliner. The designers will get a hell of a bad surprise.

[TwilightShadowCool]

turbojets operating at "100 km altitude "?!
bullshit.

[billfreeamerica]

looks like a great project thank you for keeping us updated

[eltouristoduo]

Well, doesn't look bloody likely, lol. Inlet flaps? what? As depicted like like would increase drag, but whatever, I suppose it's meant to be a conceptual representation, not a visual one?
Airframe in general looks wrong for mission. I seriously doubt this depiction was sourced from any actual engineered designs, drawings or models.
100Km altitude? Is that really necessary, lol? Well idk really since, no speeds mentioned. Any estimates on design speed at altitude of 100km? But that's not aircraft altitude anyway, is it? But I think maybe there are ambitious ideas around for a variety of craft up to mach 24.

I have doubts about multiple propulsion types, seems more likely will end up being single type with multiple operating modes. Have seen more plausible seeming designs. (plausible of seeing production and use). And vertical ascent as means to redirect sonic boom? All that stress routinely? And what about the decent boom?

This all seems pretty fictional actually. Patents get filed for all sorts of weird reasons other than something about to get built. The materials, methods, costs etc would be extreme. This is practically spacecraft territory. Is Airbus really a spacecraft company now?
it's too easy to get 'worked up' about patent filings. Before you do that you should probably survey the nature of patent filings vs things that actually go into production.

[Jesses]

Can a standard turbojet operate correctly at that altitude? I know General Electric has done some testing on that but I do not know what the results were.

[charbax]

Your Videos Are Awesome.

Good job!

I'm looking forward to the return of commercial supersonic airplanes, and I do believe it can be commercially feasible. Politicians just need to green light it, as long as politicians and anti-competitive corporations don't interfere with progress and as long as politicians and business people make long term investments, then everything is possible.

[thebones]

wonder if it will be banned everywhere in America like Concorde was?