It takes an hour to watch an episode of Grey’s Anatomy. 

One hour is all it takes to drive from downtown Los Angeles to Newport Beach. 

You know what else takes 60 minutes? Flying from New York to London. Not yet, but maybe very soon…

Reno based Aerion is doing some amazing things on their drawing boards, and the next step is building the supersonic planes they’ve designed and putting them in the air. 

Back in 2017, word of their Aerion AS2 made headlines around the world. It was declared by many to be a supersonic commercial jet.  Fast-forward to now, and that AS2 is set to be actually built starting in 2023 at a new 100-acre facility in Melbourne, Florida. 

The max speed the AS2 could potentially reach is Mach 1.4, otherwise known as 1,074 miles per hour, and roughly twice as fast a normal jet you’re used to flying on. 

The AS2 could literally allow business travelers to start their day in New York, make a meeting in London a few hours later, and have a late dinner back in the Big Apple that night. 

That’s amazing. But nothing compared to what Aerion’s AS3 would be able to do. The company is saying the top end speed of the next-gen model would be Mach 3-5. That’s somewhere between 2,302 and unbelievable 3,836 mph. 

The air distance form New York to London is 3,459 miles.  The AS3 could cross the pond in an hour. Unbelievable.

We can all dream about that supersonic excursion someday, but in the meantime the AS2 gets closer to reality.  Aerion is planning on producing 300 of the aircraft. 

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