A sub-scale prototype of an amazing futuristic supersonic passenger airliner has been revealed for the first time ever. Made by the startup aerospace company Boom Technology and backed by the famous Virgin Group tycoon Richard Branson, the ‘Baby Boom’ jet airplane could get us in a new era of affordable supersonic air travel. We bet you would like that very much. The new concorde airplane is supposed to appear until the year of 2020, and an estimated price for a ticket from London to New York would cost about 5 thousand dollars.

The startup company Boom Technology introduced the first prototype of the supersonic passenger jet plane that is supposed to be a kind of new generation of “Concord” reports The Verge.

The XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator which is called “Baby Boom” will not take off not even next year, but the company Boom Technology has already introduced the first prototype, and their plan for the development of this aircraft is quite ambitious. The XB-1 is 3: 1 times reduced version in terms of a passenger aircraft the producing of which will start in 2020. The revealed prototype has space only for the pilot, while the commercial version could ship up to 44 passengers.

The company Boom Technology claims that their planes will be able to travel from New York to London in just three to three and a half hours, while the average “standard” flight takes about 7 hours. The company said that a flight from Los Angeles to Sydney which lasts about 15 hours, will be shortened to 6 hours and 45 minutes. According to the initial estimates, a ticket from London to New York with new “Concord” is supposed to cost about 5 thousand dollars.

The people at Boom Technology claim that their minimized concorde airplane travels at a speed of 2.2 Mach (2,700 km/h) or 10% faster than the “Concord” and nearly three times faster than the speed of an average passenger airliner. This startup already has great support from the billionaire Richard Branson, head of the Virgin Group.