View Full Version : Mach 4+ Airliner Revealed
Pearly White
30th Mar 2021, 12:46
Had to check my calendar to make sure it's not 1 April yet. It isn't, so this must be fair dinkum: Aerion unveils AS3 Mach 4+ Airliner (https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/aircraft-propulsion/aerion-unveils-as3-mach-4-plus-airliner-concept?elq2=95b93dd4e6774a9588e3367f26eca798)
Something rather familiar about the low-contrast image.
Their website has some better imagery (https://aerionsupersonic.com/as3/) than the article in Aviation Week.
Euclideanplane
30th Mar 2021, 12:49
Not April 1st yet. But close enough.
DaveReidUK
30th Mar 2021, 12:59
Their website has some better imagery (https://aerionsupersonic.com/as3/) than the article in Aviation Week.
"Coming in 2021", according to the website.
As opposed to the Aerion AS2, which has been in development for the last 7 years.
Less Hair
30th Mar 2021, 13:37
More details are coming not the airliner.
Pearly White
30th Mar 2021, 14:52
"Coming in 2021", according to the website.
As opposed to the Aerion AS2, which has been in development for the last 7 years.
I think I waited 16 years from first seeing Concorde at Farnborough before I got to fly in it across the ditch. Not sure even if I'm still here in 16 years whether the AS3 will be.
Less Hair
30th Mar 2021, 14:56
The strange thing is before they are done with their biz jet they promise the next even bigger thing and start to collect money? There is so much idle investor marketing these days before any technical concept can be checked for feasibility. I trust these guys but I want hard facts first.
GlobalNav
30th Mar 2021, 15:33
Aerion has been “developing” supersonic airplanes for decades now, just not very quickly.
widgeon
30th Mar 2021, 16:28
Well I see Net Jets ordered 20 of the BIZ jets , wonder what the deposit was ?.
atakacs
31st Mar 2021, 19:10
I honnestly thouhgt it was a premature April 1st joke.
M4 is just a pipe dream with current technology, not even factoring costs.
Let them deliver and certfify the AS2 and then we might start discussing it...
lamer
11th Apr 2021, 15:41
Didn't Elon say one application of Starliner was a 100 person rocket ride to any point on Earth in 90 minutes max?
I'll admit the landing technique needs some work but ....
TURIN
11th Apr 2021, 22:41
Starship. Starliner is the Boeing capsule that will be launched on the SLS.
https://youtu.be/zqE-ultsWt0
treadigraph
12th Apr 2021, 08:46
This is a Starliner...
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/640x490/1280px_lockheed_l_1649_constellation_twa_e21a296a9ddae8bc702 955132fa0a45e4cac8424.jpg
atakacs
22nd May 2021, 11:52
Didn't last long (https://simpleflying.com/aerion-supersonic-shuts-down-what-does-this-mean-for-future-development/)
Absolute bozos if you ask me
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
10th Jun 2021, 15:28
I never understood why the Constellation has a humpy back - that had to make it a lot more difficult to manufacture in comparison to a continual cross section
As for Mach 4 ... what's the point? By the time you "arrive at the airport three hours in advance" and then get through "security" and walked two miles to your gate you might as well have taken the train
DaveReidUK
10th Jun 2021, 21:48
I never understood why the Constellation has a humpy back - that had to make it a lot more difficult to manufacture in comparison to a continual cross section
Aerodynamics.