Flexjet Order For 20 Supersonic Jets Boosts Aerion
Flexjet has placed a firm order valued at $2.4 billion for 20 Aerion AS2 supersonic jets, with delivery to begin in 2023. First flight is expected in 2021.
“We have examined Aerion’s technology and the AS2’s remarkable performance
capabilities, and see them as potential game-changers for business travel. Aerion and
Airbus Group are moving forward impressively with the AS2’s development,” said Flexjet Chairman Kenn Ricci.
[…]
we are proud to be at the forefront of the next revolution in business jets, supersonic travel. We are pleased to be
the first fleet purchaser of the Aerion AS2 and to be able to offer supersonic,
intercontinental flight capabilities to our Owners,”.
Source:
AviationWeek.com
Aerion
Ukraine’s chief MH17 expert [might have] survive [an] assassination attempt
Oleksandr Ruvin, Director of Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Expertise at the Ministry of Justice, received a gunshot wound to his legs and was hospitalized.
Police have launched an investigation and suspect the attack could have been associated [with] his professional activities.
Ruvin has played a key role in the investigation of the crash of Malaysian flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine in July 2014, and represented Ukraine in a number of international commissions[…].
Source:
http://uatoday.tv/
The NTSB may not have the opportunity to review or comment on any of the eventual investigative details or conclusions, according to the senior official. “If they would send us” only those portions dealing with engine issues, “we would say thank you” and likely accept that without complaints, he said.
Source:
The Wall street Journal
A complete set of pictures, sorted by plane section
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@BarnesW:
I was talking about the fact that the Rafale structure does not bear as much evolution as some other 4th Gen design.
There are traces of a strong Mirage 2000 legacy that should grants some confidence toward its expected life. Main drawback is weight hence a pinch in the overall efficiency (somewhat alleviated by the aero config and the benefits in load-out).
@Swerve:
I took a shortcut. But if we have to compare both design in A2G for that block, wouldn’t you agree that the T1 cap are fairly marginal?
Boston drone maker releases surveillance UAV that can fly forever
22M$ in investment for that thing sounds really weird. LM tested in-flight laser charging and others dev’d high voltages multi-spectral, 360 permanent FoV, field capable tethered design.
Pathetic…
Not that much. Structurally, the jump from 2k to the Raf was pretty straightforward. This conservative approach chunks a big part of the risk (but limits the efficiency).
I am gonna be very very blunt here; I am sure others have either ignored your “expressed” opinion that those are not weaponbays or tried to show you otherwise with proof which gives us two choices about you;
a. You are either ignorant and proud of it.
or
b. You are an idiot.
Pick one, or both, i dont care, but you must be one of them atleast. There is proof that those are without any shadow of doubt sideweaponbays literally on this page. Beyond that we have for example for many years;
1; Datasheets of the pylons used in those weaponbays.
2; The are referred to/described in PAK-FA patent(s) as to being sideweaponbays.
3; They have been referred to many times by insiders (as a certain post on this page demonstrates) as sideweaponbays.This interview is from MAKS and i already posted it a while back so nothing new. Good magazine anyway even if that particular interview is old.
What a fine gentleman we have here. Don’t tell me that you are another one of those Internet hero, Berkut. When I will see a missile inside those thing, a will tour Russia with my canoe on my back.Until then, allow me to remain skeptical. Unless it’s too much for the solidified matter flowing in your brain.
In fact you factor in the single purpose, low impact T1 in that number. Just like if France had factored-in their alphajet time. The T1 remaining a dead-end operationally (no upgrade no dual role), you can’t mix the number to make an assessment for a comparative analysis.
If you want such, you’ll need to subtract the Rafale M costs and compare the result with that of the latter Typhoon.
If Dassault had made a land based, day only fighter, the cost would have dropped drastically.
The funniest part is that the end result might be favorable to the Typhoon.
. Boeing’s PR guy is essentially accusing the winning design team low-balling.
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Boeing just drop of the competition for the space station cargo resupply vehicle the very next day. Something goes very wrong for them. I guess you can hear flies at corporate meetings.
It might be time for a century Brain storming. I hope for them that all the rumors around the Silent Eagles for Israel comes to fruition. Wish they had kept the C17 line open also.
You feel offended? For someone just stating the obvious thing that you saying a lot of BS? These last ones from you are not even cospirationist theories, they are just plain idiocies.
Rational explanation my … You are shooting something out that have not any link not only to the case given but to the reality itself just to spew out sentences and insults and fell morally superior than the others.
And for the rest be assured that Russia and Syria would keep to do what they doing actually: killing Salafist and Wahabi scums instead of making business with them.
My past experience have shown me that you can’t educate the most stubborn. I will left the following link as it is, uncommented (Syria as a member of the states sponsor of terrorism).
http://m.state.gov/mc14151.htm
So now, back on Topic.
What you wrote is just a crazy conspiracy theory, nothing else. There is no plain logic and not much to discuss over it. An ISIS(whatever name it has in Egypt) terrorist atack is much more plausible.
So far we can just expeculate over the plane crash. Only an investigation will tell what really happened.
Crazy conspiracy???! How the hell did you get those two words from my sentences. Where is the conspiracy? Where is the crazy hypothesis? Haven’t you ever heard about Lockerbie and Lydia’s bloody ruler?
I would suggest you calm down and stop insulting other that tries to feed the debate with a reasonable explanation of what could have happened.
As I have expressed it numerous time, I doubt those are missile bays. Look at the J20, there is the same design and there, those canoe shapes are definitively too small to fit any kind of a2a missile. Plain logic would say that both bear the same functionality.
Last but not least, again, their positions, pointing right at the vortex source, would suggest, first another usage, secondly a poor choice for positioning anything to be air-launched.
If you believe 9/11 was a inside job or Mr. Putin was behind the terrorists atacks on those apartment blocks in 1999. If it´s true, if it was a bomb planted by ISIS or whatever wahabi group out there, be sure, it was their last trick. Russia will hunt down and kill every single one of them even if it means boots on the ground in Syria. As the Beslan terrorista atack proved Russia will not be intimidated.
What does 9/11 have to do with this? Terror and bloody retaliation have always been part of a certain kind of Middle-east autocrats. Assad is one of them and remain famous by his cautious application of the Ahma rule.
Putin foreign affair team had just changed their vocabulary around Assad standing in power. There is a convergence here. It is then legitimate to put the question in the debate.
Daesh didn’t attempt such action before despite, as it seems to be today, the lack of rigorous security in Egyptian airports, a country where they are present since long now.
So please, leave the tin hat aside and try to discuss the matter with plain logics.
If it is determined to be a bomb then since ISIS claimed responsibility then yes Russia will deploy ground forces and kill a LOT of people in Syria.
Hummmm.
And if this was a last trick of the old Assad clan*? What Mr Putin would do?
*Let’s be clear, butchers scarcely fade away without a last slaughter.