{"id":1353,"date":"2020-09-03T03:02:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T03:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2020-09-03T03:06:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T03:06:37","slug":"air-force-one-getting-ready-to-go-supersonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/air-force-one-getting-ready-to-go-supersonic\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force One Getting Ready to Go Supersonic"},"content":{"rendered":"
Air Force One is going supersonic according to Air Force\u2019s Life Cycle Management Center. President Trump’s airplane is already one of the safest and fastest passenger airplanes in the world, but it’s going to be much faster.<\/p>\n
Exosonic is an aviation company and it recently made headlines as the firm chosen by the US Airforce\u00a0 to develop a supersonic\u00a0 aircraft for the Pentagon. The research award worth $1m is aimed at modifying Exosonic’s already existing plans for a supersonic commercial airplane (think Concorde) into a presidential grade aircraft.<\/p>\n
As per a Twitter post from the Air Force\u2019s Life Cycle Management Center last week, Exosonic will \u201cdevelop a low-boom supersonic executive transport aircraft that will allow key decision makers and teams to travel around the world in half the time it takes now!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The US President is currently traveling using a state of the art Boeing 747-200B series aircraft, which is the latest version of Air Force One. According to Boeing, Air Force One can travel at a maximum speed of 0,86 Mach, whereas 1 Mach is the speed of sound in the air.<\/p>\n A supersonic Air Force One will dramatically change the nature of air-travel for US presidents, as it will make international trips easier and much quicker. The low boom thing about the project refers to the aircraft’s capabilities to achieve supersonic speeds quietly.<\/p>\n Here’s Exosonic CEO Norris Tie announcing the contract in a press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n