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Exclusive look inside the US supersonic presidential jet

Postby Hooray » Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:55 pm

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/ ... index.html

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(CNN) — The news broke last September that a California start-up was working with the US Air Force on developing a supersonic plane which could be used as Air Force One.
Exosonic was handed a contract by the Presidential and Executive Airlift Directorate (PE) after impressing the military with its concept for a low-boom supersonic Mach 1.8 twinjet.
Now CNN Travel has had an exclusive look inside the cabin interior of the executive transport plane designed to carry the US Executive Branch's distinguished visitors (DVs).
It's a 31-passenger derivative of Exosonic's 70-passenger commercial airliner concept and is the ultimate in business jets -- luxury leather, oak and quartz fittings, private suites for work and rest, and all at cruise times twice that of existing aircraft.
The functions of presidential craft varies according to need, but this plane might primarily be used as Air Force Two, which is the call sign for jets carrying the US vice president.
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Re: Exclusive look inside the US supersonic presidential jet

Postby The epic chicken » Sat Apr 03, 2021 1:53 pm

That's one unstable plane
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Re: Exclusive look inside the US supersonic presidential jet

Postby wkitty42 » Sat Apr 03, 2021 2:30 pm

how do you know? have you tried flying it? ;)
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Re: Exclusive look inside the US supersonic presidential jet

Postby The epic chicken » Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:24 am

it looks unstable
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Re: Exclusive look inside the US supersonic presidential jet

Postby danielHL » Sun Apr 04, 2021 5:46 pm

Supersonic aircraft don't look like conventional aircraft because supersonic flow is unlike any other type of flow condition. Most of the standard laws no longer apply, some principles are turned upside down and it's best to throw even intuition over board when crossing Ma=0.6. There's just physics and pure numbers beyond that.
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Re: Exclusive look inside the US supersonic presidential jet

Postby V12 » Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:20 pm

The epic chicken wrote in Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:24 am:it looks unstable

Check Concorde, Tu 144, B1, Blackjack. Or Blackbird.

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... and ofcourse Valkyrie

danielHL wrote in Sun Apr 04, 2021 5:46 pm: There's just physics and pure numbers beyond that.

And nice experience when You take off from EGLL after sunset and in KJFK land at nice evening.
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Re: Exclusive look inside the US supersonic presidential jet

Postby Husky Dynamics » Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:57 am

Interesting. Looks a bit like a B-1 Lancer cross F-22 Raptor cross Star Fox Arwing or something. I kind of like it.
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