Supersonic dream revived

[Guest Chainsaw]

While the Concorde supersonic passenger jet may be a fading memory, the dream of supersonic aircraft is far from lost. One manufacturer in the USA -- Aerion -- plans to use the technology for medium size business jets.The company promises: In the near future, it will be possible to take off from Paris at 8.00am for a breakfast meeting in Manhattan. And to fly from the East Coast of North America to Asia in just nine and a half hours.

It will be possible to traverse the United States at .98 Mach, with fuel consumption equivalent to today?s large business jets. And to access all the airports most business jets do now, while meeting the most stringent noise regulations.

 

A new approach to supersonic design makes it possible. It is like nothing that has come before, but may well herald the shape of business travel for decades into the future.

http://www.aerioncorp.com/

 

 

[TAA Matt]

Will be very interesting if this actually happens, remember Boeing were looking at possible supersonic designs and it was when they were reasearching and designing this supersonic aircraft they came up with the 787Dreamliner.