The Aerion Corporation may have some competition for its supersonic business jet (as I’ve mentioned previously). Turkish newspaper Hurriyet says Russian company Sukhoi has been working on a supersonic aircraft since 2005 and is now in talks to bring Italian company Alenia in as a partner.
The jet’s expected speed is 1,960 kilometer per hour, twice that of normal passenger planes, and a special engine design should mask the sonic boom. Manufacturing is scheduled to being in 2015.
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