Mach 4+ Airliner Revealed
 

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

Something rather familiar about the low-contrast image.

Their website has some better imagery than the article in Aviation Week.

Not April 1st yet. But close enough.

"Coming in 2021", according to the website.

As opposed to the Aerion AS2, which has been in development for the last 7 years.

More details are coming not the airliner.

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.

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.

Aerion has been “developing” supersonic airplanes for decades now, just not very quickly.

Well I see Net Jets ordered 20 of the BIZ jets , wonder what the deposit was ?.

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...

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 ....

Starship. Starliner is the Boeing capsule that will be launched on the SLS.

This is a Starliner...

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....5e4cac8424.jpg

Didn't last long

Absolute bozos if you ask me

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

Aerodynamics.