NASA completes preliminary design review for supersonic X-plane
BY: STEPHEN TRIMBLE, 27 JUNE, 2017, FlightGlobal NASA will soon ask companies to bid for a contract to build a supersonic X-plane whose preliminary design review was completed on 23 […]
Category Archives: Supersonic
The dream of resuming supersonic flight ramps up
BY: STEPHEN TRIMBLE 16 MAY, 2017 SOURCE: FLIGHTGLOBAL.COM Fourteen years after the retirement of the Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde, the dream of resuming civilian supersonic flight has seemed never more active than […]
M as in Mach: Seven supersonic business jet dreams
By: STEPHEN TRIMBLE, LONDON, Source: Flightglobal.com 8 May, 2015 The annual EBACE European business aviation jamboree in Geneva is just around the corner, and Flightglobal is looking forward to more than the […]
Beautiful shot of Tu-144
Enders envisages 3h flights to Sydney on Concorde successor
NASA Plan to Beat the Boom
Flight INternational, 09 Feb, 2015
Airbus Aerion alliance – Flight International
Lockheed L-2000
Wikipedia
Boeing SST
Wikipedia Unreal Aircraft YouTube Boeing’s Latest SST Proposal – Flight International – January 1969
Tupolev Tu-144
“144” (TU-144). First in the world supersonic passenger production aircraft.
Source: Tupolev TU-144D production a/c Successful building in the 50-s of supersonic combat airplanes including heavy ones, created a favorable situation to study possibilities for building supersonic passenger airplanes SST). […]
Tupolev Tu-444
Wikipedia The Tupolev Tu-444 is a concept for a supersonic business jet from the Russian firm Tupolev. Tupolev has had previous experience developing supersonic transport aircraft with projects such as […]
Airbus alliance accelerates Aerion’s supersonic dreams
Flight International, 30 September 2014
Boeing SST
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/kings-of-the-swingers-top-13-swing-wing-aircraft-404176/ Our only commercial candidate in the swing-wing category is Boeing’s ill-fated SST: a planned supersonic spoiler to the Anglo-French Concorde. The US aircraft started out as a swing-wing, but […]
Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21
Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21 was a projected Russian-American supersonic business jet. In the early 1990s, Gulfstream Aerospace and the Sukhoi Design Bureau of Moscow began a joint effort to develop a supersonic […]
Is Supersonic Just A Loser?
By Paul Bertorelli | September 18, 2014 Source: AvWeb Rapid transportation—that is, anything faster than a galloping horse—hasn’t been with us all that long. Steam locomotives weren’t in widespread use […]
Airbus Joins Aerion’s SST Project
Airbus has agreed to collaborate on technology development with Aerion Corporation, the Reno, Nevada, company that has been working over the last decade to develop a supersonic business jet. “To […]
Aerion advances supersonic ambitions with Airbus collaboration
By: KATE SARSFIELD LONDON Source: Flightglobal.com Aerion’s dogged 10-year ambition to bring the first supersonic business jet to market early in the next decade has taken a leap forward, after the […]
Video: Aerion’s Supersonic Business Jet
By Paul Bertorelli | September 17, 2014 Source: AvWeb Aerion is making a multi-million dollar bet that the world needs a supersonic business jet, and it’s developing one for delivery […]
Gulfstream Moving Toward Supersonic Bizjet
By Russ Niles | September 16, 2014 Source: AvWeb Gulfstream is quietly making progress toward a supersonic business jet that might be able to fly above Mach 1 over the […]
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