Virgin Galactic partners with Rolls-Royce as it looks to build an aircraft for supersonic air travel

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Virgin Galactic revealed a first look at its supersonic aircraft’s design. Take a look:

, specifically toward helping the company build a supersonic aircraft.

"We have made great progress so far, and we look forward to opening up a new frontier in high speed travel," Virgin Galactic chief space officer George Whitesides said in a statement.British aerospace company Rolls-Royce has a notable history making aircraft engines, including having built the engines that powered the supersonic Concorde aircraft.The initial supersonic design targets Mach 3, or three times the speed of sound, using a delta-wing aircraft.

The company's design puts it into a development race against a few other private firms, some of which have been working on next-generation supersonic aircraft for several years. each are working on supersonic jets — and, before the the coronavirus pandemic, those companies expected to conduct test flights as early as 2023 or 2024.

 

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I see this same tweet every week !! Trying to pump the stock lol

$SPCE calls at open

UcheEzeoke bro, get on this p. Stock is still cheap

commandasaurus ... space planes 🛩🚀

Más humo

shashanksaxenaS ✈️

Whats the price to cgi ratio?

Why do you allow megtirrell to endorse and retweet someone like adamfeuerstein who harasses cancer patients and attacks medical doctors?

Just Concorde with a virgin logo on the tail

Wow More vision

How is a bankrupt company going to pay for that fancy spaceship?

Like the concord aircraft

Always great to see new products developed for the rich when we have so many more important challenges to solve.

Is this the same company seeking a government bailout for their airline?

Can he deliver. Or is this just hype? He’s gotten “hypy”.

I’m this economy... *gasp 🙃

Right on! Nice!

Wow they just copied boom jets

Wow

Hmm . . . looks like a plane

Looks like a concord

So New York to Dubai in like 2 hours?

So will this be block pay or duty rig. Or leg pay. ?

Holds up to 8 billionaires.

*YAWN* Concord. Different s$&, same smell.

What do you think? luismen1991

concord wasn't profitable leading to it's shut down.

Wow, so that is what a $5 billion company with $0 revenue looks like

that’s science fiction coming to reality

Not necessary in this digital age of business. Maybe 1990, but not in 2020.

Look it’s a concord

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