Next-Generation of Supersonic flight
Aug 23, 2012, 8:16 pm
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Next-Generation of Supersonic flight
Guess what? Concorde flight has not disappearing and now, they will being built next new supersonic flight.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/23/tech/i...html?hpt=hp_c2
What do you think?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/23/tech/i...html?hpt=hp_c2
What do you think?
Aug 23, 2012, 10:58 pm
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Aug 28, 2012, 6:46 am
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I think the Concorde concept would not work today, but for a smaller business jet I think there is a market (with an increasing number of billionaires around). This may actually work.
Aug 28, 2012, 11:10 am
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Oh, there's one of these BS stories every few years, it never happens.
On the Aerion: "Backers predict it will enter into service by 2020". Riiiight. Eight years. It was eight years from the first orders of the 787 to the first deliveries. It'll be slightly more than eight years from the first orders of the A350 to the first deliveries. That's for a relatively conventional airliner, built by a giant pre-existing team of engineers with expertise and facilities to build airliners, and with sufficient money in the bank to fund the building of an airliner.
This is a supersonic jet to proposed by some aerodynamics consulting firm in Reno. It's no closer to being built than a jet sketched by my eight-year-old nephew.
On the Aerion: "Backers predict it will enter into service by 2020". Riiiight. Eight years. It was eight years from the first orders of the 787 to the first deliveries. It'll be slightly more than eight years from the first orders of the A350 to the first deliveries. That's for a relatively conventional airliner, built by a giant pre-existing team of engineers with expertise and facilities to build airliners, and with sufficient money in the bank to fund the building of an airliner.
This is a supersonic jet to proposed by some aerodynamics consulting firm in Reno. It's no closer to being built than a jet sketched by my eight-year-old nephew.