KANYE West told his partner Bianca Censori he wanted to have sex with her mom as she watched on, the rapper’s ex-assistant has claimed.
A disturbing lawsuit lobbied against Ye, 47, alleges he had a “kink” where he wanted to have sex with his partner’s mothers – something his accuser Lauren Pisciotta claims was an “obsession and desire”.
Former OnlyFans star turned influencer Pisciotta sued West back in June alleging he sexually harassed and stalked her while he was her boss between 2021 and 2022.
A string of serious claims were made throughout the 88-page lawsuit seen by the U.S. Sun.
One of the most shocking related to a conversation between West and his then girlfriend Censori, 29, about her mom Alexandra.
On September 28, 2022, West allegedly sent a text message to Censori saying: “I wanna f*** your mom.
“Before she leaves.”
The graphic text, seen in the court documents, was allegedly sent to Pisciotta shortly after as West wanted her help.
According to the filing, he quizzed his assistant: “Should I add I meant I want you to watch me f*** your mom.”
It remains unclear if West ever sent the follow up message directly to Censori.
The lawsuit also claims that Censori – who went on to be West’s wife shortly after – was seen as an “on call sex party participant/employee”, according to Pisciotta.
Censori was with West in Los Angeles on a work visa as Alexandra turned up for a few days after flying in from their native Australia.
Pisciotta claims Censori was “insisted upon and required” to always reply to West’s texts in order to keep their jobs and visas.
The influencer alleges in the documents that West showed her the reply from Censori which said: “She’s [Alexandra] married.
“I’m going to f*** someone this weekend and tell you the next time you’re inside me.”
A second alleged time West referred to a similar desire took place just weeks earlier, according to the lawsuit.
Pisciotta claims she was sent a message by West on September 13, 2022, where the rapper said he was “determined” to have sex with an “A-list fashion model” and her mother.
The text within the court pages reads: “Is [young A-list fashion model] better for me than [different A-list fashion model]? How do I tell her I need to f*** her mom baaad.”
West also asked his assistant to make sure the woman modelled for his sunglasses campaign, it is claimed.
The court documents also mention a number of other concerning allegations.
Pisciotta accused West of drugging and raping her at a party with disgraced rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.
She claims she was “roofied” when a drink which was poured and served to her by West was laced with an unidentified drug.
Years before the pair worked together, West co-hosted a Santa Monica studio session with Combs inviting Pisciotta round.
The lawsuit claims: “As Plaintiff [Pisciotta] began to slip into an altered and heavily impaired state, she felt less in control of her body and speech and that is where the Plaintiff’s memories of that night escape her.”
Pisciotta woke up the next day feeling ill, confused, and full of shame that she couldn’t recall a single detail of the night following the drink.
For years she thought that nothing happened, only to find out that West said he had “hooked up” with her.
The lawsuit claims West “reminisced” about the night when the pair started working together, saying “we did kind of hook up one time”.
Some time after Pisciotta stopped working for West the pair saw each other at a Post Malone concert.
Ye allegedly grabbed Pisciotta by the throat and put his tongue into her ear saying: “I always knew what I would do to you if I ever saw you again.”
Pisciotta also alleged that West tried to make her bring him “honey” that he would use to boost his sexual performance as a way to try and sleep with her.
A representative for West did not immediately respond to comment.
As Plaintiff [Pisciotta] began to slip into an altered and heavily impaired state, she felt less in control of her body and speech and that is where the Plaintiff’s memories of that night escape her
Pisciotta's lawsuit claims
The rape allegations were made by Pisciotta as part of a wider wrongful termination and sexual harassment lawsuit.
Proceedings were first brought against West by Pisciotta back in March, but they didn’t become public until June.
The lawsuit alleges West used his branded companies as “conduits to persue and satisfy his unusual; fantasies and delusional desires…
“And he further used the money created by him and these entities to fund his obsessive, compulsive, sexually dominated and driven behaviour.”
Pisciotta details a number of times West allegedly sexually harassed her, including masturbating next to her on a plane and standing over her naked while on a bed.
She also claims in the suit West failed to pay her $3million in severance after she stopped working for him, plus an additional $1 million he allegedly promised her for deleting her OnlyFans account.
She also claims West repeatedly sent her vulgar text messages.
West allegedly sent the following text to Lauren: “One time I took Viagra and f***ed [A-list celebrity] for three hours.
“Not sure why that thought came to me.”
Another offensive text allegedly read, “l just thinking back to the bowling alley thinking of what the headline could have been Ye arrested for f***ing the s**t out of his assistant on the bowling alley floor.”
West also allegedly sent several sexual videos to Pisciotta, including a 24-second clip he filmed of a model performing oral sex on him.
West’s spokesperson previously said: “In response to these baseless allegations, Ye will be filing a lawsuit against Ms. Pisciotta, who actively pursued him sexually to coerce employment and other material benefits, then engaged in blackmail and extortion when her advances were rejected.”
KANYE West has faced a number of controversies in recent years.
In November 2022, a former Yeezy staffer alleged Kanye showed them intimate photos of his ex-wife Kim Kardashian.
Staffers also claimed he played pornography for them during meetings and talked about porn.
In October 2023, Adidas dropped the rapper as various social media sites barred him from their platforms for making anti-semitic comments online, in interviews, and with his clothing.
Amid pleas from fans and threats of major boycotts, Adidas announced its decision to terminate his contract.
Gap and Balenciaga followed suit.
The rapper is now being sued by his ex-assistant, accusing him of sexual harassment and wrongful termination.
Kanye has said in the past that he suffers from a porn addiction, making the comments in an online rant that has since been deleted.
FRAZER CLARKE will undergo an operation to repair his jaw and cheekbone.
Clarke, 33, suffered a brutal first-round knockout at the hands of Fabio Wardley in the Saudi Arabia rematch last night.
A huge hit from Wardley crashed into Clarke’s jaw, seemingly putting it out of place, while there was a sizeable dent in the side of his head.
Big Fraze was tended to by medics inside the ring once it was waved off by the referee and he was rushed to hospital.
Frank Warren later confirmed the beaten fighter had suffered a suspected fractured cheekbone, explaining the dent in his head.
And now it has been announced he will have surgery to fix the damage to his face.
Wardley, though, was delighted with his emphatic performance.
He beamed: “I know that once I hurt someone, I can get rid of them.
“I had a few issues for the first fight but I got rid of them, had a gameplan and executed it.
“I learned enough from the first fight to know I had enough to beat him properly.
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“I can’t help it, it’s my name; War by name War by nature.
“I want belts and titles next, these domestic ones are great but I want the ones that have ‘world’ written on them.”
Clarke, who had started well before being tumbled by his rival, was not the only British boxer to end up hospitalised in Riyadh on Saturday night.
That is because Ben Whittaker was rolled away in a wheelchair and taken to hospital after tumbling out of the ring by his opponent Liam Cameron.
The farcical WWE-style scenes turned serious when Whittaker stayed down and injured his right leg.
And with the Surgeon unable to carry on, the fight was stopped early – with Whittaker escaping from what looked on course to be a major upset.
The judges had it 58-57 Whittaker, 58-57 Cameron and 58-58 at the time – meaning it ended in a technical draw.
Following the fight, Cameron said: “He [Whittaker] had nothing left. The kid was knackered from round two.
“I definitely beat him. I don’t get a fair share [in fights]. What more do I have to do?
“Never had a promotional deal in my life and I tried my best to win that today and I think I deserved the win.”
Asked if he thought Whittaker was looking for a way out, he said: “Yeah. 100 per cent. You can see it on camera. I don’t want to be critical of him.”
A DAD and his three kids have managed to dodge cops for years in a case “never seen before”, a missing person expert has said.
Dubbed “The Bushman”, Tom Phillips, and his kids Jayda, 10, Maverick, nine, and Ember, seven, were reported missing from the village of Marokopa in New Zealand on January 18, 2022.
Police in New Zealand have attempted to locate him multiple times over the last 30 months but the expert bushman managed to escape each time.
Phillips and his children are believed to be hiding in remote bushland.
And new footage released last week showed the fugitive dad and his kids together for the first time since they vanished.
The clip showed a man leading a gang of three children in the middle of a farm – clad in trekking gear along with rucksacks.
Cops confirmed the sighting was credible – but failed to locate the family even after an extensive search operation.
Missing person expert Charlie Hedges told The Sun: “It’s hard to tell what his motivation is for what he’s doing.
“Presumably he’s just wanting not to be in the system and wanting to be giving his own way of life to his children.
“It must make it more difficult because you’ve got to care for them and make sure they’re okay, feed them, find somewhere for them [to sleep], so that complicates the issue.
“If it’s just you on your own, and if you’re anywhere, any good at backwoodsman skills and living in the wild, then that’s got to be a lot simpler if you’re on your own.”
Despite being on a wanted list, Phillips has managed to dodge cops multiple times over the last few years.
Charlie explained: “It sounds like it’s fairly wild terrain and if he’s good at what he does, he’s well versed in living in those areas.
“He can maintain his distance away from other people.
“If it’s a very remote and rural area, then obviously there’ll be less police, smaller police presence rather than a big city.
“So that will make it more of a challenge to find the resources to respond quickly when he does show up.”
But the obscurity of Phillips’ disappearance has still stumped experts, Mr Hedges said.
“You’d normally expect them to be found sooner than this, because it is an unusually long period of time, particularly with having children,” Mr Hedges said.
“I can’t think of another case like it.
“It’s quite an individual and personal thing what he’s doing.
“A lot of people wouldn’t have the skills to do that or the desire to do it and to be able to live successfully in such a remote area to be able to feed himself and his children and provide shelter and what have you.
“It takes a particular type of person to be able to do that.
“It’s not something we see very often.”
The latest sighting of Phillips and his children is understood to have been on Waikato’s west coast, around 1.8 miles south of Marakopa – the family’s former home.
The footage was shot by a group of pig hunters, 1News reports.
John McOviney, the grandfather of one of the witnesses, told the media outlet: “My grandson rang me. He was out there and they did a bit of hunting.
“[My grandson] and his friend saw this guy with three kids walking along the trail, and you know these kids today, the first thing they do is pull out a phone.
“You don’t see many adults with three kids walking around with packs on their backs in the Marokopa area without joining the dots, do you?”
Philips is believed to have crafted a network of refuges around the area, The Times report.
In June, New Zealand cops posted a £38,500 (NZ$80,000) reward for information about the whereabouts of the missing dad and his three children.
Hundreds of armed officers alongside choppers have so far scoured the backcountry around Marokopa.
Detective Inspector Andrew Saunders said: “There’s obviously not the gold nugget … of this is where he is. We haven’t got that yet.”
He added Phillips was armed and was a risk to the community – who should not approach him.
He said: “We have concerns for the welfare of the children who have been living in isolation for the past two and a half years, with no connection to others and without formal education and healthcare.”
Philips and his three kids vanished for the first time in September 2021 after his truck was found abandoned at a beach.
They appeared shortly afterwards and Philips said they had been on a camping trip.
The dad had been due to appear in court charged with wasting police resources – but failed to do so.
In January 2022 the dad and the three children disappeared for the second time – and they haven’t returned.
Philips was spotted in the farming town of Te Kuiti last year when he robbed a bank at gunpoint before fleeing in a stolen motorcycle alongside a child.
A month later, in August, he was seen speeding in a stolen Toyota Hilux.
And in November, he was caught on CCTV with a child trying to break into a store in Piopio.
Earlier this month he was seen at a hotel in Ōtorohanga – but he managed to flee before police arrived.
It doesn’t get any easier… it’s been nearly three years. There’s three children still missing with a criminal at large
Cat
Concerns are growing over the state of the three children who have not seen their mum since 2021.
Cat, who separated from her now ex-husband after eight years of marriage, called him a “criminal” for doing what she described as “child abuse”.
But she said she was “overwhelmed” and “relieved” after watching the new video that showed Philips and his three kids in a remote location.
The mum told the New Zealand Herald: “[Watching them] was overwhelming, it was amazing, it was the best thing.
“It was like Christmas came early and I really thought they would be coming home this time.
“I just broke down… I can’t see their faces but I can see them walking and they’re all there, and they’re capable of carrying their own bags.”
She has appealed to the public to help find them and come forward with any details they might have on Philips.
“It doesn’t get any easier… it’s been nearly three years,” she said.
“There’s three children still missing with a criminal at large.
“They shouldn’t have to worry about where they’re going to sleep that night or whether they’re going to be warm.”
Cat said she was “eternally grateful” for the person who shot the evidence of the kids being alive.
AN ELDERLY woman has been decapitated after plunging from the 28th floor of a New York apartment block.
Horrified witnesses have revealed the 80-year-old was found on the floor with her head and arm cut clean off her body.
Witnesses said her body got caught on something during the fall with some believing it was likely a balcony edge that caused the terrifying decapitation.
A shocked resident told the New York Post: “I pulled up just as she was laying there, she had no head.
“The head and the arm were clean cut off on the other side, they ended up on the terrace.”
The unidentified woman plunged off from the 28th floor of the Park Regis Apartments at about 3:30pm on Saturday, cops said.
Her clothes were later discovered stuck on a fence near the bottom of the building.
Witnesses say the fence was left badly bent from the impact.
A 23-year-old who saw the ordeal unfold added: “Everyone started rushing towards the body but she was gone.
“Her body landed there but her head and leg hit the fence there, you can see it’s bent, there were clothes and blood stuck there.”
Officers quickly cordoned off the luxury apartment block with blue tape as several cop cars arrived to the scene.
The woman was covered in a white cloth before being taken away.
The New York Police Department are still investigating the possible motive behind the woman’s deathly plunge.
WHEN five women and a 14-year-old girl were snatched and killed within miles of each other, each murder had the same chilling clue.
Alison Rooke, 59, Bertha Miller, 73, Catherine Headland, 14, Ann-Marie Sargent, 18, Narumol Stephenson, 34, and Joy Carmel Summers, 55, were all killed within an 18-month period.
All six women were walking, or on their way to use public transport, when they were taken and murdered.
The victims – aged 14 to 73 – were killed and dumped in scrubland in Frankston and Tynong North, Melbourne, between May 1980 and November 1981.
Extreme efforts were made to hide their location and their identity – with the killer taking away all their possessions before leaving their bodies to rot.
Corpses of the older women were found clothed – while the younger victims were found partially naked.
Their bodies were found severely decomposed – leaving detectives unable to determine the cause of their deaths.
At the time, DNA evidence was not available – and it was nine years after the first murder that it became widely used in courts.
Since the 1980s, Victoria Police have interviewed more than 2,000 people about the killings, coming up just with a handful of suspects.
A special task force was created for the case in 1998 to solve the case.
And despite exhaustive efforts, nobody has ever been charged.
Now, we revisit one of Australia‘s most shocking unsolved cases which horrified the nation – and how no one has ever been charged.
Decades on, Detective Inspector Mick Hughes said they are still “keen to see this investigation resolved”.
He said: “We want that vital piece of information that will progress this case.
“Families [of the victims] are frustrated, and some very hard-working investigators have been frustrated by not being able to progress this over the years.
“There are a lot of [loose ends] in this case, a lot of little things that we think ‘if I just knew a bit more about that’, it might help us.”
A police spokesman confirmed the investigation “remains active” – and a total of $6million (£3m) in rewards is still up for grabs.
They said: “Investigators will not provide comment on details of anyone spoken to as part of the ongoing investigation.
“A reward of up to $1million per case remains in place and will be paid… for information leading to the apprehension and subsequent conviction of the person or persons responsible for the deaths of the six victims.”
We’ve had to move on, and it’s a lot of time, but still we would love to see some finalisation
Keith Rooke
Allison Rooke’s son Keith Rooke said the family are still desperate for answers.
He told ABC News: “We’ve had to move on, and it’s a lot of time, but still we would love to see some finalisation.
“It would also make sure that our mum is not remembered just for what happened, but remembered for the great person that she was.
“It would mean a lot.”
Joy Summer‘s niece, Catherine Warnock, found out about the death of her aunt Joy Summer on a TV news broadcast.
She said: “It was so awful. This was the sort of thing that happened to other people, in other places, not to our family and not in Melbourne.”
Peter Sargent described her 18-year-old sister Ann-Marie as bubbly “who was loved by everyone” – and said her death “wreaked havoc” on her family.
FIVE women and a 14-year-old girl were taken, murdered and dumped between May 1980 and October 1981:
Allison Rooke, 60, was the first known victim of the Frankston and Tynong murders and was last seen in May 1980.
Joy Summers, 55, was last seen on October 9, 1981, waiting at a bus stop. She was found dead in November 1981.
Bertha Miller, 73, the aunt of former police chief Mick Miller, was snatched at random on August 10, 1980
Catherine Headland, 14, was last seen on October 9, 1980. She was heading towards the bus stop on Manuka Road and High Street before she vanished.
Ann-Marie Sargent, 18, disappeared in October 1980 while trying to catch a bus. Her skeletal remains were found alongside Catherine and Bertha.
Narumol Stephenson, 34, vanished after her husband left her inside a car in November 1980. Her bones were found alongside the other victims a few weeks later.
While the killer has never been found, cops have probed several leads – including whether the same person killed all six victims.
One of the suspects was Raymond Edmunds – a convicted rapist and serial killer from Victoria known to have committed a string of violent crimes and sexual assaults between the 1960s and 1980s.
Edmunds was once believed to be the killer of the Tynong North and Frankston murders – but cops eventually ruled him out after credible alibis suggested he was living in New South Wales at the time of the murders.
Another suspect was Bandali Debs who murdered two police officers and two sex workers in the mid-1990s and is currently serving life in prison.
Cops initially believed he was behind the string of murders due to his pattern of grim violence and his proximity to Princes’ Highway.
I have never hated a person or disliked them enough to wish them dead and take their life
Harold Janman
A third suspect was Harold Janman – who was known to give lifts to strangers in the area the murder victims were snatched from.
Unlike the other suspects, Janman never had a criminal record but he had close ties to Frankston, living in the area for over a decade.
He told cops during interrogation that he was visiting a local bank on the day Joy Summers disappeared – and his wife supported his alibi.
But when authorities spoke to the bank staff, they found no records of Janman visiting that day.
He worked in the area at the Tynong Hotel and at the quarry where the Tynong North murderer would dispose of their victims.
Throughout the years, Janman maintained his innocence and insisted he had nothing to do with the murders.
Cops failed to gather any more evidence on him and were not able to charge him for the brutal killings.
In 2018, he told A Current Affair: “I couldn’t kill an animal, let alone a person.
“I have never hated a person or disliked them enough to wish them dead and take their life.”
It changed us all because we thought we were safe. I wouldn’t let my girls go out. I wouldn’t let them go on the bus
Cheryl Goldsworthy
Janman died in 2020.
All the victims disappeared in broad daylight on busy roads – either walking or waiting for public transport.
On May 30, 1980, 60-year-old widow Allison Rooke disappeared from the Frankston area.
She lived in a flat on Hannah Street, Frankston North – and her neighbour told cops she was headed to pay bills and buy groceries when she disappeared.
Ms Rooke usually drove, but on that day car troubles forced her to take public transport.
The usual bus driver didn’t remember picking her up – and she never made it to the grocery store.
In July 1980 – five weeks after her disappearance – a man walking his dogs found her body partially hidden by scrubland, on McClelland Drive in Frankston.
Just three months later, Bertha Miller, 75, vanished as she headed to church.
She lived in Glen Iris with her brother-in-law and she was an active member of the Spring Wesleyan Street Mission in Prahran – a church she had attended for 48 years.
On August 10, 1980, Bertha left for the Sunday church service and caught the same tram she did every week – planning to meet a friend on the way.
But her friend never met her on the tram. It is believed she was taken from the tram stop.
Just days after Bertha was taken, 14-year-old schoolgirl Catherine Headland vanished on August 28, 1980.
She was one when she moved to Australia with her family – and lived in Berwick.
Catherine worked part-time on weekends at a Coles supermarket in a nearby shopping centre.
On August 28, Catherine went to meet her boyfriend John Mcmanus – who lived just a mile away from her place – before starting her shift.
After watching TV and listening to her favourite music records, Catherine left for work at around 11.10am and walked towards the High Street to catch a bus at 11.20am.
But she never made it to the bus stop.
I don’t believe the killer could be quiet and not tell anyone
Cheryl Goldsworthy
Her body was found four months later in December in the same area as the body of Bertha Miller.
Cheryl Goldsworthy, a close friend of Catherine, said she never let her daughters take the bus after the murders.
She added: “It changed us all because we thought we were safe. I wouldn’t let my girls go out. I wouldn’t let them go on the bus.
“It was broad daylight. It shouldn’t have happened.”
She told 9 News: “I don’t believe the killer could be quiet and not tell anyone.
“I hope that his time is coming and it’s coming soon and he should be behind bars. Someone’s coming for him, someone’s got to say something.”
On October 6, 1980, 18-year-old Ann-Marie Sargent also disappeared.
She was last seen at an unemployment office in Dandenong.
Cops reportedly found she was a frequent hitchhiker and they believe she got a lift from an unknown person – thought to be the killer – on the day she went missing.
On December 6, a group of men who were dumping animal remains in scrub near a quarry in Tynong North came across human remains in the area.
Cops were called and the bodies of Bertha, Catherine and Ann-Marie were located at the site.
Just days before the three bodies were found, Narumol Stephenson, 34, vanished outside a friend’s house.
Narumol – a Thai national who only moved to Australia a year before – was last seen on November 29, 1980.
After a disagreement with her husband about visiting friends late at night, Narumol stayed in the car while the others went inside.
When her husband came outside to check on her, the car was found empty and Narumol had disappeared.
She was found in February 1983 after a man spotted a bone sticking out of a bush as he pulled over to fix a flat tyre on the Princes Freeway in Tynong North.
Then, a year later, Joy Summers – a 55-year-old widow – vanished, and her disappearance and murder was linked to the other five victims.
Joy was heading on a shopping trip to Frankston on October 9, 1981, when she vanished.
Joy had suffered a stroke a couple of years before – and was always accompanied by someone, except on this day.
She was last seen sitting at a bus stop just minutes away from her home at 1.20pm.
It is believed someone snatched her from the bus stop – as no bus drivers on the route remember picking her up.
On November 22, 1981, a man collecting firewood found Joy’s naked body hidden in bushland in Frankston North.
Her body was found just two miles away from where Allison Rooke’s remains were found.
Australian cops believe all six murders are linked as all the bodies had been left in scrubland – and similar efforts were made by the killer to conceal their location and their identity.
THIS is the wild moment a brawl between a postie and a lycra-clad cyclist after the cyclist claims he was cut off.
Decked in a hi-vis top, the postie squares off with the fed-up cyclist after he punched the side of the van in a road rage incident.
Footage of the brawl, which happened on a suburban street on the Gold Coast, Australia showed the two men going head to head.
In the video, the postie can be heard approaching the fired up cyclist saying “I don’t want to fight”.
He then jumps into his van before the cyclist starts slamming the door on the driver.
The postie is then seen jumping out of the vehicle and throwing a scanner at the cyclist while taking a couple of swings at him.
The two men squared off, with the cyclist landing a punch on the delivery driver who quickly grabbed the scanner and retreated to the van.
Codey Lamos who captured the fight told the Daily Mail that he believed a punch to the postie’s side-mirror sparked the violence – but it was the postal worker who had started it.
He said: “I heard old mate [the cyclist] saying he had been cut off and something had been thrown at his face.
“Then [the cyclist] followed the postman into complex and that’s what I captured.”
The wild brawl has split viewers down the middle on the Nine News Facebook page which posted the video, with some saying the cyclist in the wrong.
One person said: “So over self entitled cyclists. They are a hazard on the roads. If they want to take on the cars, gonna come off second best. Stick with bicycle tracks etc. Stay off the roads.”
Another added: “Poor guy tried to get away, the cyclist should be charged.”
A third commented: “Poor postie. Just trying to do his job!”
A few people came to the cyclist’s defence, with one person commenting: “ll put $100 on it the van driver initially cut off the cyclist.
“Cyclist has had enough of this happening and snapped instead of letting it go.”
Another person said: “The driver’s more than likely nearly taken him out.”
In a statement, Australia Post said the organisation was aware of an incident involving a subcontractor and police had been notified.
They said:”As the footage only shows part of the incident, Australia Post will conduct a full investigation into the matter.
“However, the behaviour shown in the video is not what Australia Post expects of its people.”
Queensland Police said they were unaware of the incident.
A BRITISH hypersonic aviation company has opened talks with the government – leading to fresh hope for a new “Son of Concorde” style passenger plane.
The talks could re-ignite the dream of flying from London to New York City in 60 minutes in a passenger plane that can hit 4,000mph.
Reaction Engines is in talks with Whitehall to secure a £20m lifeline amid mounting losses and slow revenue growth.
The company hopes its hybrid jet-rocket engine could one day enable a new era of hypersonic flight.
It would mean any destination around the world is never more than a few hours away.
Reaction hopes its engines will one day be able to fly at Mach 5 in the atmosphere – or even Mach 25 if they are used in space.
Mach 5 alone is more than three times faster than Concorde.
And it is hoped than one day these engines will power a new generation of high speed planes, often dubbed the “Sons of Concorde”.
Reaction have insisted their engines, dubbed Sabre, are well into development – and the new lifeline could be crucial.
The company has said a test bed for its engine had run at the equivalent of five times the speed of sound at its test facility at the Colorado Air and Space Port outside of Denver.
Reaction engines said: “Mach 5 is more than twice as fast as the cruising speed of the Concorde and over 50 per cent faster than the SR-71 Blackbird aircraft—– the world’s fastest jet-engine powered aircraft.”
Richard Varvill, Reaction Engines’ co-founder and current chief technology officer, said in a statement that the latest test was a “momentous landmark.”
He said: “The performance of our proprietary precooler technology was validated at hypersonic flight conditions and takes us closer to realising our objective of developing the first air-breathing engine capable of accelerating from zero to Mach 5.”
Reaction, which was founded in 1989, is building “Sabre”, short for Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine, a new design that combines a conventional jet with a rocket.
The company however has stiff competition.
Boom Technology’s Overture promises to cruise twice as fast as a regular plane and offers luxurious travel with prices that rival business class on a Boeing 777.
Test pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg claims the airliner will do miles better than the Concorde, its predecessor that paved the way for supersonic travel.
The XB-1 plane is being used for the test flights before Boom unveils the actual aircraft set to be used in the future known as the Overture.
The XB-1 was inspired by the 1969 Concorde which flew passengers from New York to London in under three hours at Mach 2 (around 1,345 mph).
If tests are successful a supersonic airliner carrying between 64 and 80 passengers could be available from 2029.
Creators want the aircraft to reach Mach 1.7 (around 1,300 mph).
The XB-1, which has a range of 4,250 miles, achieved its fastest speed yet on October 7.
Chief test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg took the aircraft out for its fifth spin from the XB-1 from Mojave Air and Space Port.
Geppetto flew the jet 17,800 feet into the sky pushing it as fast as Mach 0.69 (around 492 mph).
While he’s “never been scared in a plane”, Geppetto admitted he’d faced some nerve-racking flights in the past but described the thrill of piloting the XB-1.
“The first time I went to land on an aircraft carrier, I had a hard time sleeping that night, and I also got nervous for some of the important flights for my qualifications,” he said.
“Interestingly though, I wasn’t really that nervous for the flights in the XB-1. I knew the team I was working with, I knew the air.
“I know this aeroplane better than any aeroplane I’ve ever flown.”
Although the Overture will mostly fly over water, its noise reduction design will reduce sonic booms, which contributed to the end of Concorde in 2003.
Symphony, its turbojet engine, can run at both high and low speeds on sustainable aviation fuel.
Running at a lower speed means the Overture can land on the same runways as typical commercial aircrafts like the Boeing 737 or the Airbus A380.
Manufacturing for Overture will start in 2025, with test flights by 2027.
THE CONCORDE was the first supersonic passenger-carrying luxury airplane.
Two decades ago the Concorde took its first-ever flight.
It became supersonic in 1969, flying passengers from New York to London in less than three hours.
It was the only aircraft in the British Airways fleet that required a flight engineer.
Concorde needed unsustainable amounts of fuel and created very loud sonic booms.
Then, in July 2000, a horror accident saw 113 people killed when an Air France Concorde ran over a small piece of metal while taking off from Charles de Gaulle Airport.
It caused the tyre to explode and the engine to ignite.
A year after the horrific crash, 9/11 majorly affected passenger numbers.
Ultimately a combination of these events led to its downfall.
By 2003, Air France and British Airways announced they would be retiring their fleet of Concorde planes.
