The owner of the world's largest fleet of business jets gave supersonic technology a big vote of confidence.
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Aerion is currently building a new headquarters in Melbourne, Florida.
- Bendecko
So it was loud, and crashed and killed a whole bunch of people. Let's bring back the Concorde already, and FFS do an FOD check on the runways once in a while.
OEM Leonardo is aiming to bring the AW609 to market in 2022. Three prototypes are flying, and production-standard aircraft are "in-build" at the company’s Philadelphia plant. The same site will be home to training facilities for the aircraft. The AW609 airframe also will be used as Leonardo’s Next-Generation Commercial Tiltrotor testbed for future tiltrotor technologies.
So it was loud, and crashed and killed a whole bunch of people. Let's bring back the Concorde already, and FFS do an FOD check on the runways once in a while. - Wetbandit1
They're never coming back.
1) Not sure if there are any airframes left that are capable of being returned to flightworthy status.
2) Parts supplies have dried up—recycled for raw materials when possible—and likewise tooling has been destroyed for recycled raw materials.
3) There is no business case for it. In fact there never has. It's always lost money year after year for the airlines that used it (they were famous for never being able to sell enough seats to fill each flight), so no airline will want to fly it. Not now, nor in the future.
The reason for introducing new ones like the above example from scratch (there are similar other offerings in development) is that they are much smaller, and with the availability of first class seats dwindling on normal airlines, the makers believe that there is a market for people who want to travel on a smaller private/business jets, but they want to do it faster than the subsonic offerings. There are some that have plans to make versions that are capable of supersonic flight over land with a minimized sonic boom which passes FAA (and other civil aviation authorities) noise limit rules (plans are contigent on current NASA research for reducing sonic booms).
The above example, however, is only intended to go supersonic over open water, like the Concorde. Thus it will have no reduced sonic boom capabilities. Rather, the effort is to make it more fuel efficient.
So it was loud, and crashed and killed a whole bunch of people. Let's bring back the Concorde already, and FFS do an FOD check on the runways once in a while.
- Wetbandit1
They're never coming back.
1) Not sure if there are any airframes left that are capable of being returned to flightworthy status.
2) Parts supplies have dried up—recycled for raw materials when possible—and likewise tooling has been destroyed for recycled raw materials.
3) There is no business case for it. In fact there never has. It's always lost money year after year for the airlines that used it (they were famous for never being able to sell enough seats to fill each flight), so no airline will want to fly it. Not now, nor in the future.
The reason for introducing new ones like the above example from scratch (there are similar other offerings in development) is that they are much smaller, and with the availability of first class seats dwindling on normal airlines, the makers believe that there is a market for people who want to travel on a smaller private/business jets, but they want to do it faster than the subsonic offerings. There are some that have plans to make versions that are capable of supersonic flight over land with a minimized sonic boom which passes FAA (and other civil aviation authorities) noise limit rules (plans are contingent on current NASA research for reducing sonic booms).
The above example, however, is only intended to go supersonic over open water, like the Concorde. Thus it will have no reduced sonic boom capabilities. Rather, the effort is to make it more fuel efficient. - Bendecko
Well, WB1, it actually seems like they've listened to you... sorta. I guess someone sees there may be a business case for a big capacity SS airliner:
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