Aerion’s coming Mach 4 passenger plane lit Bill Whittle’s imagination, until he saw the advertising that touted windmills, and extracting Co2 from the air, and magically bringing people together. The men of Right Angle offer some new ad concepts.
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Maybe I misunderstood what Steve but I thought GM had dumped the Oldsmobile brand and not the Pontiac logo. Somebody save my memory for me.
Bill, you finished really strong on this one.
I wonder what their first choice advertising campaign was going to be. That is, the one they were going to run before the election was stolen.
I can’t wait to fly on a mach 4 solar powered jet…
This design – should it ever leap from the drawing board to the skies – will be for Jean-Jacques Kerry’s use. You know, “People like me” as Mister 57 Varieties proclaimed recently.
Ketchup Kerry…put me on your french fries.
“Globalist Air…we bring the new world order to you at supersonic speed.” Yeah…the last generation is here now. Get right with God, because the beginning of sorrows has truly begun.
Well, if they are going to be tearing down statues of heroes yet to come, they may very well be tearing down statues of Bill Whittle, Steve Green, and Scott Ott. Plus statues of Zo playing seven guitars and four drums at the same time.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Coming late 2021. Right.
I count on the A3 precisely 14 windows. That should account for about 56 passengers. As a person who’s job requires me cross the big pond 5-7 times a year, Westbound take off’s from SFO are at midnight and arrivals at TPE are at 5am. I sleep well on a Boeing 777. Eastbound, takeoff’s from TPE are at 7pm and arrivals are at SFO are at 4pm. I sleep in this direction anyway. Me and 325 or more passengers do this.
Aerion goes faster for sure, but 56 passengers (whenever the A3 actually get’s built) doesn’t do much for the working stiffs like me. But hey, it’s nifty for Leonardo to fly 55 of his closest friends to Davos, so there’s that…
Yep, as I stated on the Backstage. This will be an ultimately luxury item. A 13 hr flight becomes a 6 hr flight at M1.4. If they really get to M4, it becomes 2 hr. But still a huge cost and limited viability. But there are lots of uber-rich I say go for it. My last flat screen was less than $300.
I thought the video ad said this was a 500+ person plane. Maybe you missed all of the slaves chained in the lower hold cycling away like mad so they can achieve that 4.1 mach speed? You know, those deplorables or the convicted 1/6/21 insurrectionists!!
You got me there George. 500 person plane. Ok, I guess you pay much more for windows, and the rest of the peons, like simple millionaires, they go in the back in steerage.
Thanks for pointing that one out. I missed that one.
“cycling away like mad”….that was a boomerang that hit me only a minute or two after reading it.
“Aieron is powered by…….PEOPLE!”.
I think they said the smaller version was coming soon and the larger one later?
Maybe they meant 2027 instead.
But this plane, and the business and wealth that may grow from it, comes from someone’s innovative idea. Innovative ideas come from brains. Brains come from carbon. Carbon comes from biomass (including unicorn feces from long ago). Biomass comes from solar energy. So ultimately this plane is solar powered after all.
Nice solipsism you got there! Approved of heartily
Bill’s soyboy voice is creepy. 🙂
Backed by Boeing and Powered by GE. Hilarious.
Could just be a spin off that has little to do with Boeing corporately or mentally, and GE makes engines, so that might be all that they have as involvement.
Lines like that make me thing of a variety of other products (movies and video games in particular) that use big names to say “These people trust us, so you can be sure we’re not crackpots.”
Got a JLU Wrangler 2 years ago to replace my good old 20-year-old TJ, and I love it. NOW they come out with the hemi. DOH!!!!
I’m not an aeronautical engineer, but those engines on pylons look kinda flimsy for 4.5 Mach and the center engine in the tail brings back memories of compressor stage disintegration and what it did to the DC10. Imagine loosing all hydraulics at altitude and max cruise.
I was, but have been out of that field for a long time. I would be surprised if the nacelle was not more integrated into the wing. But materials technology has gone leaps and bounds. Still about drag, lift and heat though.
There are other renderings showing different configs. Who knows what it will end up being. Perhaps @bill_whittle could ask Burt Rutan for a consult.
That’s a good point! How are they handling the frictional heat? Titanium skin? $$$$$
YES! Bill – Guest Interview with Burt Rutan! The only rules are these:
There: Rules set. Make the Call!
The #2 engine looks more like the design used in the L-1011 and 727: An S-curve duct feeding an engine in the aft fuselage. But as you say, these renderings are likely to change. I do wonder about the distance between the wing mounted engines and the cabin, both in terms of noise level and possible damage from uncontained fan blades, etc.
Scene 1: A Cowboy businessman is in NYC with a potential client during the late afternoon, just before 5pm. As they enter a cab, they are discussing dinner and the cabbie says, do you want some great BBQ. The cowboy looks at the client and says, Yes I would love some great BBQ. Would you like to go to my favorite BBQ joint. The other says, yes that’d be great. Impressed that this guy knows a great BBQ joint in NYC The cowboy leans forward to the cabbie and gives instructions.
Scene 2: Cab arrives at Marine Air Terminal where the Cowboy’s private jet, Aerion, awaits. They get on and rocket into the air. Drinks are served on board. Lagavulin 16, neat. (It’s my script, back off)
Scene 3: Plane lands KC, they take a limo to the favorite BBQ joint where the clock shows it is only 15 minutes later than when they left NYC. They get served great food and beer and shake hands on the deal.
Fade to jet soaring into the sunset.
I so miss the days when Americans would cheer together at our new advancements and achievements.
Some of us do cheer, when the advancements and achievements are not wholly fictitious.
Bill, who ever heard of honesty in advertising? That’s such a novel concept, but it doen’t give the same sensation of smoke blown up one’s cornhole.
Looking for a Tucker? Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?
That plane looks like a B-58 Hustler got drunk and went home w/ a DC-10.