Posted on 11/19/2015 4:32:00 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
The world's first private supersonic jet could take off in as little as six years.
The AS2 plane will be capable of supersonic travel, allowing passengers to travel between London and New York in just three hours, and Los Angeles to Tokyo in six.
Airbus and Aerion say they hope to choose a US manufacturing site for the jet during the first half of next year.
If all goes to plan, test flights will take place in 2021, with the first commercial flights for businesses beginning in 2023.
The Aerion AS2 business jet will fly at a top speed of 1,217 mph (1960 km/h), which is almost as fast as Concorde, which flew at 1,350 mph (2,170 km/h).
The team has so far made initial designs for a carbon-fiber wing structure, fuselage, landing gear and a fuel system.
Design features include wings which reduce overall drag by 20 per cent, allowing for lower fuel consumption and longer range and a luxurious 30ft-long cabin that will seat up to 12 passengers.
'We see clear and achievable technical solutions to the design of a supersonic jet, and a realistic road map for helping Aerion proceed toward construction and flight,' said Airbus senior vice president Ken McKenzie.
Airbus will provide all the major components and Aerion – a company backed by Texas-based billion Robert Bass - will complete the final assembly.
The companies say they are now looking for a US production site, which has 100-acre (40-hectare) space, located near runway at least 9,000 feet (2,700 meters) long, according to Bloomberg.
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Tell me that after your THIRD 19-hour trip to China in one month.
Standing tough under stars and stripes
We can tell
This dream’s in sight
You’ve got to admit it
At this point in time that it’s clear
The future looks bright
On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well by seventy-six we’ll be A.O.K.
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
Three times in one month???
Better just take up residence!
And a ticket price probably about 20x higher than today's
Nice, but is it worth arriving 3 hours early at the airport, standing in line, being frisked (if not a member or the ROP) and being packed into a seat like cattle?
Given the dramatically higher forces on the tail for a T-tail (versus the Boeing standard tail), I hope Airbus doesn’t do the composite tail - they’ve had some issues with their glue.
Yes, from the article it's a private jet. The Elite need these to travel the globe attending income inequality and global warming summits.
KPH?!? WTF!?!
Bunch of damn metric nonsense!
Well MY SST will cruise at 2900 MPH, the rest of them can just eat my exhaust trail! lol
Ah, the old Metric/Imperial boondoggle. The US campaigned hard for the world to accept the Metric system, then we reneged.
Never!
I need those weekends to decompress just from the bad air, bad driving, bad manners and all the $*^%! HONKING.
People either love it or hate it. I love it.
Looks like the wing loading (and therefore takeoff and landings) will be a bit ... frightening.
The Concord also used supercruise. Nothing new there.
Incorrect. The Concorde had to run full afterburner on the Olympus 563 turbojets to achieve the Mach 2.0 cruising speed.
“Thud”
Well your wrong. The Concorde usually flew around 1.7 Mach and did not use AB for most of the flight. That fits the definition of supercruise. It needed AB to get that fast in the first place, but after that they switched the AB off. It is super CRUISE, not ‘super accelerate’. The whole point of super cruse is to turn off your AB during the cruise portion of the flight and ‘cruise’ ‘super sonic’. I.E. super cruise. If they left the AB on the Concorde would never make it across the Atlantic.
Crap, i hate it when that happens.
You were off by one :)
Considering that the caption under the picture says
The world's first supersonic jet...
yeah, it's a private jet.
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