Originally published at: Spike Aerospace Advances Work on Supersonic Business Jet - AVweb
Company targets quieter, faster long-haul flights.
Have they done wind tunnel tests?
Have they built and flown a demonstrator, as Boom Supersonic has?
How deep are their pockets?
Serious questions, especially given the failure of an earlier venture to do more than make a mockup. So could not attract investors.
An earlier article said it is partnered with ‘Tech Mahindra’ which seems to be a design consulting company, perhaps part of Mahindra of India.
There is experience making parts for aircraft in India, such as Tata which is an Indian manufacturing conglomerate.
Predicting 1.6M speed, I forget what Boom wimped down to from its initial goal of 2.2M.
Key for an airliner is round trip time in the face of curfews for all airplanes with some allowance for delays, to get utilization of capital investment, I suggest a business jet is somewhat sensitive to that as well, to get pax back home.
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