{"id":1138,"date":"2017-03-10T18:36:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T16:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2017-03-10T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T16:47:00","slug":"spike-aero-to-fly-subsonic-prototype-of-supersonic-business-jet-ssbj-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=1138","title":{"rendered":"Spike Aero to Fly Subsonic Prototype of supersonic Business Jet (SSBJ) This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1139\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?attachment_id=1139\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1139\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1139\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Spike-Aerospace-supersonic-prototype-10-03-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Spike Aerospace supersonic prototype\" width=\"1000\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Spike-Aerospace-supersonic-prototype-10-03-2017.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Spike-Aerospace-supersonic-prototype-10-03-2017-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Spike-Aerospace-supersonic-prototype-10-03-2017-768x338.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Spike Aerospace expects to certify its $60 to $80 million, low-boom, Mach 1.6 SSBJ by 2023. To keep on that path, it plans to fly a low-speed demonstrator this summer and a supersonic prototype by the end of next year. (Photo by Spike Aerospace)<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Spike Aerospace expects to fly a subsonic prototype of its 18-passenger supersonic business jet (SSBJ) this summer, the Boston-based company has announced<\/strong>. The scale prototype of its S-512 Quiet Supersonic Jet will demonstrate low-speed aerodynamic flight characteristics. It plans to follow this with a series of larger prototypes and a supersonic demonstrator by the end of next year.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe made a lot of progress in 2016 in engineering and with the addition of a number of engineers and partners,\u201d said Spike Aerospace president and CEO Vik Kachoria. \u201cOur plans for 2017 are even more exciting as we continue development of the Spike S-512. I\u2019m looking forward to our first flight later this year.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spike Aerospace expects to certify its low-boom, Mach 1.6 SSBJ by 2023. Meanwhile, the company recently added several advisors with experience selling business jets in the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Middle East. Target price of the S-512 is somewhere between $60 million and $80 million.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source:<\/strong> By CHAD TRAUTVETTER | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjtonline.com\/business-jet-news\/spike-aero-to-fly-subsonic-prototype-of-ssbj-this-year\" target=\"_blank\">bjtonline.com News<\/a> &#8211; January 10, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 28px; left: 20px;\">Kaydet<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spike Aerospace expects to fly a subsonic prototype of its 18-passenger supersonic business jet (SSBJ) this summer, the Boston-based company has announced. The scale prototype of its S-512 Quiet Supersonic Jet will demonstrate low-speed&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7,25,23,18],"tags":[701,1043,1044,1179,1181,1183,1180,1182,1184],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}