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Now you could travel from New York to London in just 11 minutes if you board Canadian Charles Bombardier's newest jet design.

'The Antipode', the new design, is slated to be 12 times as fast as the Concorde and can touch speeds to Mach 24, according to the Daily Mail.

With 10 passengers, it can take less than an hour to zoom over 12,000 miles.

"I wanted to create an aircraft concept capable of reaching its antipode, or the diametrical opposite, as fast as possible," Bombardier said.

It is possible to build the aircraft with heat and pressure-proof materials. "LPM could help reduce heat, but it would not eliminate all of it, even if it's working in perfect flight conditions," he explained.

The Antipode would carry rocket boosters on its wings, and turn any airfield into a flying strip. When it touches a high of 40,000 feet, the accelerators would fall off the plane and come back to base, and would then use a magnetic field to push it on two conductive railings. After that, the rockets would fire and get propelled further into the atmosphere.

Scramjet engines would boost the jet even further, at 10 times the speed of sound.

Hence, over just 32 minutes, the airplane would be able to travel from New York to Sydney, Australia and 11 minutes from New York to London.

Among the drawbacks of the design is developing a stable and reliable scramjet engine, according to Bombardier. They also need to deal with the g-forces passengers would experience.

As the plane is still in the experimental phase, the building of a complete prototype will take many more years.