WORLD'S FIRST SUPERSONIC BUSINESS JET

COST £60M, FLY AT 1,217MPH

Airbus is teaming up with US-based Aerospace firm Aerion to create a supersonic jet that can fly from London to New York in three hours and from Los Angeles to Tokyo in six. 

The Aerion AS2 business jet will fly at 1,217 mph, using proprietary supersonic laminar flow technology - almost as fast as Concorde, which flew at 1,350 mph.

Engineers from Airbus' Defence and Space Division will work with Aerion at its base in Reno, Nevada. The cost of the AS2 is thought to be more than $100million - over £60million - and Aerion hopes test flights will begin by 2019.

The jet, which will fly between major global cities, will be made mostly from carbon fibre composite material.