AERION AS2 Business Jet

[A35K]

Well, if it is built or not, what does it matter? Not like any of us are going to be able to fly in it... At least with concorde it was expensive, but it still ran normal airline flights, so normal people actually had a chance of flying it. Here, its a private jet, so you either have to own it or be part of a very rich company that allows you to use it. However, I suppose that if it works it would be a good start to a future supersonic airliner.

[Penguinhero]

[quote name='Kryten']If they ever will be it'll be in this kind of segment, but it's hard to see much of a market when supersonic travel over land is still banned in most countries.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=fredinno;]I wonder if supersonic commercial aricraft will ever become viable.[/QUOTE]

[IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Concorde_landing_Farnborough_Fitzgerald.jpg[/IMG]
ahem Edited November 22, 2015 by Penguinhero

[More Boosters]

[quote name='Penguinhero'][URL]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Concorde_landing_Farnborough_Fitzgerald.jpg[/URL]
ahem[/QUOTE]

A plane with just one counterpart, neither of which endured the test of time. Much viability, such wow.

[GDJ]

Feasibility or possibility put aside, It's a great looking plane! I would love a ride in it.

At 120M per plane, only the top 0.1% would be looking at it.

[SomeGuy12]

Can they do it? I mean, so you come up with a flyable design that is streamlined enough according to your CAD software. You buy engines...somewhere....that can handle this kind of intake speed. You put together the wing box, wings, etc, using materials that can take the aerodynamic load.

If you don't have all the overhead of lockheed or boeing and you have more of a startup mentality and you have 1.2 billion bucks to work with.

It sounds possible. SpaceX did it, making a brand new rocket with new engines that can reach space for less money than these guys took. It flew.

You have all the modern tools like software, rapidly prototyping shops, off the shelf parts and alloys that can handle the stress. Hundreds of supersonic aircraft have been built and flown before, and you can find senior engineers who did the design for them willing to work as consultants. You know it's possible - you can absolutely make an aircraft shaped object about this size with jet engines exceed the speed of sound, dozens of military aircraft have been designed and built around this size.

Now, whether or not the company makes a [I]safe [/I]product, or gets enough sales to stay in business is a totally different story. I think it's entirely possible whatever they come up with will be unsafe, crash prone, and too expensive to keep flying. Edited November 23, 2015 by SomeGuy12