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Super rich want supersonic bomber as business jet

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The Tu-160, which is solely used by the Russian Air Force receives inquires to use the supersonic bomber as Business Jet. (airlinerwatch.com) さらに...

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jwmson
jwmson 5
The thing looks like a "B-1ski."
dee9bee
dee9bee 0
Dang, you beat me to it...
joelwiley
How about the B-Own?
malki2601
It may not be quite as big as the Russian aircraft but would be much more reliable...
A6SEA
Yep. Don't know if the Russians ever had an original idea.
dabeed
well, considering it took German know-how to bring the US into the jet age, people in glass houses...
joelwiley
Not to mention all that Yankee ingenuity of Dr. Werner von Braun in the space race.
A6SEA
OK, OK! I'm going to my room now...
pr0ject
NASA is also working on the SonicBAT program to develop a softer sonic boom for a possible SST.
744pnf
744pnf 2
But who is going to re-pack the drag chutes?
joelwiley
Leona Helmsly's 'little people'
JeffreyOsborne
I'll wait for the hypersonic cruise missile transport.
TorontoJeff
Really poorly written article about nothing. It will never happen.
deanbog1
How pissed would the pilot be when I slow him to mach .83 for sequence behind a B767.
joelwiley
Not nearly as much as the A/C owner in the back.
n9341c
n9341c 0
"Super rich want supersonic bomber as business jet".
Ummm, people, this is an example of what a certain guy calls FAKENEWS. Thanks for making it real Airlinerwatch you dumbasses.
greatraoul
Fake news? The article gave a couple of possible buyers but weren't specific and Antonov said why they couldn't do it. Nothing fake there.
malki2601
Antonov isn't Russian anyway. They're Ukrainian...
djjamar
Wow that plane could cross the US in 2 hours. You could actually have breakfast in LA and lunch in New York. The rich are becoming richer so I’m sure they are bored with airline conversions to corporate. Now it’s military conversions.
TorstenHoff
It would never be allowed to fly across the US or Europe for that matter. It doesn't have the certification for carrying passengers, and the sonic boom it leaves in its wake is the reason that the Concorde only reached its top speed over oceans.
djjamar
True however I’m sure some team is working on a sonic boom solution now. Only a matter of time before a supersonic biz jet with no boom is marketed and sold
TorstenHoff
Oh, they are -- look at Boom Technology. I'm just saying that converting the Tu-160 into a business jet will never go anywhere.

https://boomsupersonic.com
maverick49
Yes company will start test flights next years. Let's wait and see.
malki2601
It would take a very costly conversion to "rebuild" such an aircraft for passenger transport from a military bomber aircraft. They would also need several orders to make it worth the expense to eventually make a profit... Makes you wonder if it would ever "take off" so to speak...???
vdi74
James T 2
Aerion AS2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerion_AS2

Decibel
Or breakfast in NY and then again in LA.

Anyway, I think odds are better of BFR suborbital pax service happening.
toolguy105
I'll be darned it the TU-160 doesn't bear a striking resemblance to the B-1.
paul8626
It was a clean sheet design, like the Tu-144 and the Tu-2.

Sarcasm mode off.

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