September 7, 2018 |
Brian Wang |
On 2014, Nextbigfuture covered Elon Musk describing his belief that an electric supersonic vertical take-off passenger jet could be built. Elon Musk talked about the supersonic electric passenger VTOL plane in an interview with Joe Rogan. Other have patented VTOL …
July 23, 2018 |
Brian Wang |
According to JetNet (reported in Knight Frank’s 2017 Wealth report), within the largest 10 markets for private aviation there are around 17,000 (16,854) privately owned aircraft registered. The US has 75% of private jet ownership amongst the top 10 markets. …
January 19, 2018 |
Brian Wang |
Currently you can fly from NY to London in just over 5 hours if you get lucky with tailwinds in a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Around 2023-2025 there will be several options for $5,000-30,000 supersonic flights for the top 1% to …
December 5, 2017 |
Brian Wang |
Japan Airlines has made a $10 million investment and pre-order of 20 Boom supersonic passenger jets. JAL is helping Boom deliver something further: a mainstream supersonic airliner, which is practical, reliable, and economic. Their decades of experience as a world-class …
October 15, 2017 |
Brian Wang |
Early Saturday morning Oct 07, 2017, Spike Aerospace successfully test flew the subsonic subscale SX-1.2 demonstrator aircraft for the first time. The jet is an early unmanned prototype of the company’s 18 passenger S-512 Quiet Supersonic Jet. The SX-1.2 test …
July 26, 2017 |
Brian Wang |
NASA is proposing to spend $390 million over five years to build a demo quiet supersonic plane and test it over populated areas. NASA plans to share the technology resulting from the tests with U.S. plane makers, meaning a head …
November 25, 2016 |
Brian Wang |
The US Navy’s F-35C is the services’ first-ever stealthy carrier-launched multi-role attack fighter — slated to be operational in 2018. The Navy F-35C is the services’ first-ever stealthy carrier-launched multi-role attack fighter, engineered to perform a wider range of missions …
