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2015
The World’s First Supersonic Private Jet Just Landed its First Order
The Worldâ€™s First Supersonic Private Jet Just Landed its First Order | Fortune.com
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After 13 years of developing a high-speed business jet on paper, billionaire-backed Aerion Corporation is a big step closer to making supersonic passenger travel a reality again. The company—funded by both Texas billionaire Robert Bass and European aerospace giant Airbus —just inked its first order for 20 of the $120 million jets.

If Aerion can execute an ambitious timeline unveiled last week, its AS2 could be in the air in just five years, with first commercial deliveries beginning in 2023. That would make the jet the first passenger aircraft designed for trans-sonic travel—at speeds both above and below the sound barrier—since the retirement of the iconic Concorde in 2003.

2015
http://robbreport.com/aviation/aerion-begins-taking-orders-its-120-million-as2-supersonic-business-jet
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October 2016
Aerion AS2 | Business Jet Traveler
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Laminar flow involves the air next to the wing. At supersonic speeds it can flow smoothly, free of turbulence, with less drag on the wings, resulting in better speed, range, and fuel economy—but only if the airplane’s design takes advantage of it by eliminating drag-inducing things such as highly swept wings. If you look at the renderings of the AS2 on these pages, you’ll see that the wings are short, thin, and stubby. That’s to benefit from supersonic natural laminar flow....................

Dimensionally, the AS2’s cabin is a different cat. While its maximum height is just over six feet and its maximum width is seven and a half feet, those dimensions aren’t uniform; supersonic aerodynamics mean that the fuselage has to have a non-constant cross-section. There will be more room in the aft half of the cabin, but as you move forward the fuselage tapers.................

For now, Aerion continues development work with Airbus and is searching for a manufacturing and flight-test location—some place with a long runway, near an ocean. The company hopes to be flying the first prototype by 2021. The wait to go fast is going to last a little longer.

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Before deliveries of the Starfighter could begin, unexpected problems arose which required an intensive test program. Among these was the tendency of the aircraft to stabilize in a stalled condition-now called super stall. In this condition, the plane remains pitched up in a stalled attitude from which recovery is impossible. This flaw was corrected in April 1957.................

When it made its appearance, the first prototype bore a strong resemblance to a Lockheed-designed research missile, the X-7. In fact, the XF-104 owed a great deal of its design to the X-7 vehicle.

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The Lockheed X-7 (dubbed the “Flying Stove Pipe”) was an American unmanned test bed of the 1950s for ramjet engines and missile guidance technology.

The not quite right stuff - F-104 Starfighter
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The tiny wings made takeoff and landing difficult. To get the approach speeds down from ludicrous to simply insane, the F-104 was equipped with "boundary layer control", sometimes just called "blown flaps".................

Landing the F-104 was a tricky business. It was very unforgiving at traffic pattern speeds. The T-38 was actually designed to teach you how to fly an F-104.
A bleed air failure on one wing could be fatal. If one doesn't blow, then over you go.

Even with the blown flaps approach speeds were in the 190 knot range! That's 20 knots faster than a no-flap approach in a T-38. Smokin!

Another problem with the Starfighter was that it got very "draggy" at high angles of attack. This was common with most supersonic aircraft but it was really pronounced on the F-104. At slow speeds those tiny wings were working so hard to produce lift that a tremendous amount of induced drag was produced. This puts you into what's called the "region of reverse command". The slower you go the more thrust is required just to break even. Get too slow and you'll drop like a rock long before you actually stall the wing.

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Originally Posted by Heel n Toe (Post 9448477)

(UFO picture and spoiling an awesome idea thread for the purpose of tossing a personal jab kind of thing)

Why you no likey people who talk of Jet engine/ICBM/Extra-atmospheric/Interstellar technology?
I think you a no likey the future.
Suggest alternative.

Give it a guess.... not a Carabo...
... the file name is a hint.

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Foose 'improvements' vs. the USA made Vector and/or all the other era wedge cars?
Ok.
Totally confused now.

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Originally Posted by cashflyer (Post 9448678)

Give it a guess.... not a Carabo...
... the file name is a hint.

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Who did Chip swap cars with to get it back for his dad? My mind is drawing a blank.

A modern airplane with a lot of curb appeal. :)

I was enjoying the old radial bi-plane pictures a few pages back, brought this to mind.

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