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It's nice, but it's basically Scaled Composites, Rutan's old company, building a supersonic fighter plane sized aircraft. That's what Scaled Composites does - build little airplanes as test vehicles. Not always little; they built Stratolaunch.

There have been many supersonic bizjet projects.[1] Spike [2] seems to be the only one other than Boom still alive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_business_jet

[2] https://www.spikeaerospace.com/



This is fascinating. Do you have more info about the Rutan connection?





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