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Supersonic Private Jet to Cruise at Mach 1.6

Posted January 06, 2014 10:18 AM

From Technabob:

Unless you are a billionaire playboy or a business magnate of some sort, odds are you fly Coach like the rest of us when you travel by air. For the well-heeled, it's First Class all the way, but for the really rich it's private jets. A company called Spike Aerospace has a new private jet in the design phase it claims will be the fastest private aircraft in the skies - assuming it launches in 2018 as planned.

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01/06/2014 1:34 PM

This plane was brought up by Fredski, Dec. 27, 2013. And I see they reiterated what I said about the limitations flying over land. "One of the biggest challenges to building the aircraft is dealing with the sonic boom when flying over populated areas ....." Unless you plan all your flights over Australia, seems they're not concerned about the noise, at least according to masu their not?

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01/06/2014 2:44 PM

magnet ≈ magnate

Who edits this stuff?

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01/06/2014 6:20 PM

Nobudy.

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01/06/2014 6:22 PM

Nobody edits, apparently:

"The 131-foot-long aircraft is expected to have a maximum flying range of 4,000 nautical miles, and will between $60 million to $80 million when it launches."

Will what?

And as I said in my lost thread, ain't no way this will be built to sell for $60-80 million.

And the range is a reach, I think. Modern private jets use 300 gallon/hour to travel 600 MPH and their range is 3,500 miles. But then, I a pessimist.

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01/07/2014 8:00 AM

Spell check didn't see a thing wrong with it!

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01/07/2014 8:18 AM

Spill chucker doesn't see anything wrong, either! Must have been written by Mrs. Malaprop.

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