Day trips to Australia to become reality thanks to hypersonic planes 7 times faster than speed of sound

Day trip to the opera: The dream of a two-hour flight from Europe to Sydney is coming closer        [PHOTO  ;   COURTESY]

Australia: It could soon be possible to travel from Europe to Australia and back in a day as research into hypersonic travel gains momentum.

Aeronautic engineers in Sydney have been invited by the European Space Agency (ESA) to investigate further the possibility of travelling from Europe to Australia in two hours.