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Important information missing from the article: who is bankrolling this? As far as I can tell, Aerion Corp is a rather small-looking company based in Reno whic
by hugh3 16y ago
Important information missing from the article: who is bankrolling this?
As far as I can tell, Aerion Corp is a rather small-looking company based in Reno which has never actually built a jet. They have a website which says "Copyright 2007", some renderings of what a jet might look like, and a few photos of people meeting with each other. I can't figure out who is funding them.
So I'm really not going to get my hopes up for the success of this project. Wake me when they have a working prototype, or even enough money to build a working prototype.
- _delirium 16y agoThis article from 2004 has some early information on the company, though it's still not a lot: http://www.aviationweek.com/shownews/04nbaa/topstor02.htm http://www.aviationweek.com/shownews/04nbaa/topstor02.htm As of 2007 they were soliciting preorders: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/SUPE11147.xml http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/SUP... From what I can dig up on them, I'm vaguely suspicious that the company doesn't really exist yet, though, or at least hasn't started engineering in earnest. In that 2004 piece, they estimated it'd take 5 years from launch to service entry, and the linked article here is estimating service entry... 5 years from now. Edit: Though this article claims they had (as of 2008) 20 letters of intent secured by $250k deposits each: http://www.avweb.com/news/acrossthepond/across_the_pond_12_new_year_196807-1.html http://www.avweb.com/news/acrossthepond/across_the_pond_12_n...