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Aerion wants its supersonic jet to take off in 2024

AERION SUPERSONIC

Aerion Supersonic, the company engaged in development and production of supersonic planes, expects its first jet AS2 to carry passengers as early as in 2024, CEO Tom Vice told a UBS conference in New York City on Thursday. Vice said the planemaker hopes to bring $40 billion in revenue in a decade and that it already has an order backlog of $2.5 billion.

Apart from nearly doubling the speed of air travel, the Nevada-based company says their supersonic jets will fly silently thanks to the "boomless cruise" technology.

In 2018, Lockheed Martin, one of Aerion's partners, started producing its experimental supersonic airplane which is reportedly also able to fly silently thanks to a slimmer design.

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