Booming Business: The Demand for Supersonic Transport is Speeding Up

BAA STAFF REPORT

Booming Business The Demand for Supersonic Transport is Speeding Up

Since the retirement of the Concorde in 2003, aircraft manufacturers have invested relatively little in new supersonic technologies, despite the obvious reductions in point-topoint flight times. While Gulfstream, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and others are doing interesting work in the area of mitigating sonic boom, this technology is far from mature. To date, no established original equipment manufacturer is producing an aircraft based on a low-boom design.