The jet will carry eight to 12 passengers and have a top speed of Mach 1.5. It will have a range of 4,750 nm at supersonic speeds, which will save three hours flying across the Atlantic versus subsonic aircraft and more than six hours on longer transpacific flights.
Airbus came on board a year ago and announced yesterday they are expanding their collaboration in the project.
From reading the jet will use FBW based on the Airbus system that will also control fuel for CofG and feature small, powerful actuators that can be housed in the thin flying surfaces.
Aerion announced yesterday also they they’ve begun a formal search for a U.S. manufacturing location for a state-of-the art campus of more than 100 acres on a major airport with a minimum 9,000-foot runway, and other special geophysical requirements.” Among them will be a location within 200 nautical miles of a supersonic flight test area, most likely one offshore.
Hmmm, KMHV Mojave - has a 12,000ft runway is 77nm from the west coast – even closer to the supersonic area over the desert a bit plus has heaps of spare room!
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