Aerion SBJ
Aerion SBJ is the American manufacturer Aerion Corporation for a supersonic business jet (English supersonic business jet ) concept.
Development
The development costs of the supersonic business jet to be 1.2 to 1.4 billion U.S. dollars. The Aerion SBJ is per piece cost 80 million U.S. dollars and can accommodate up to twelve passengers. According to the company are Aerion before 50 orders, which are lined with a safety capacity of 250,000 U.S. dollars.
In the supersonic business jet Aerion SBJ supersonic bang in 16,000 meters at the bottom should be observable only with a noise level of 65 dB. This corresponds to one hundredth of the Concorde noise level. To this end, both the wind tunnel tests, including full-scale in the cryogenic European transonic wind tunnel in Cologne were ( " full-scale " because cryogenic models are smaller than the original to produce realistic measurement results ), as well as flight tests with scaled-down components of a McDonnell Douglas F- 15 NASA completed.