Every day, Anicet Mbida makes us discover an innovation that could well change the way we consume.

This Wednesday, he is interested in a project that could revolt the aviation sector.

These are hypersonic flights using engines capable of reaching Mach 17.

The innovation of the day is new in aviation.

The Concorde had introduced supersonic flights, with a Paris-New York in less than three hours.

We may soon have hypersonic flights.

They will be able to do the same distance in a quarter of an hour.

This is a major step forward in a sector where progress is being made, generally very slowly.

To give you an idea, the Concorde was going to Mach 2, which is twice the speed of sound.

There, we are talking about Mach 17, not far from 20,000 km / h, the speed of a rocket.

This is possible thanks to a new type of thruster.

Its principle, to schematize, is to detonate a bomb inside the engine and control the detonation to create thrust.

You can imagine the complexity, given the energy released.

Yet this is what a team of researchers from the University of Florida has just achieved.

We imagine that the engine will not be enough.

It will also be necessary to manufacture the planes, to create commercial flights.

However, the Concorde was stopped because it was not profitable.

Precisely, this is the whole point of this new mode of propulsion.

The Concorde was very expensive because it consumed a lot of fuel.

With this technology, it's just the opposite.

We simply use it to trigger an explosion that we will then contain.

So we consume a lot less fuel.

This is also why technology is also of interest to space.

It would allow rockets to be put into orbit, again, without the need for huge fuel tanks.

But you are right, the engine is not enough.

It is all the same a good step forward which ticks all the boxes for an economic return of supersonic flights.

If all goes well, four to five years from now we could avoid spending whole days sitting on a plane when we go on a trip.