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Company Name: Aerion Corporation
Company Type: Company of advanced aeronautical engineering organization
Company Profile
Aerion Corporation is an advanced aeronautical engineering organization headquartered in Reno, Nevada.
The company was formed for the purpose of developing and commercializing a fundamental breakthrough in supersonic transportation. Aerion has earned patents on several concepts related to supersonic aerodynamics and structures, including patents on its supersonic natural laminar flow wing design.
In addition to the Reno organization, Aerion includes an engineering group in Palo Alto, California, specializing in advanced computational methods for aerodynamic analysis and multi-disciplinary design optimization.
Prior to the formation of Aerion, its founders received several DARPA contracts for supersonic laminar flow wing studies, as well as research and test flights. This group also participated in DARPA’s Quiet Supersonic Platform Program. A team of closely affiliated firms, including Pratt & Whitney, provide engineering design and analysis support in the following areas: aerodynamics; structures; systems: propulsion; stability and control; and
aeroelasticity.
The Aerion test team and model in the University of Washington wind tunnel. From left to right: Richard Tracy, chief technology officer; Jim Chase, chief engineer; Mike Henderson, COO; and engineers Andres Garzon and Jason
Matisheck.
COO Mike Henderson examines flow patterns with Aerion Chairman Robert Bass following a wind tunnel run.
About Company
Aerion is The name of Adrastus' horse in the first expedition against Thebes. The horse saved the life of Adrastus, when all the other heroes who had taken part in the war were killed. After the defeat of the
Argive army Areion carried his master quickly away from the battlefield and left him in safety near Colonus in Attica. The speed of Areion had already been displayed in the funerary games founded in honour of Archemorus (see Amphiaraus).
The following story was told about Areion's breeding. When Demeter was searching for her daughter, who had been abducted by her uncle, Hades (see Persephone), Poseidon, who was in love with Demeter, followed her everywhere she went. To rid herself of him, Demeter had the idea of changing herself into a mare and hiding among the horses of King Oncus, at Thelpusa in Arcadia. But Poseidon was not taken in. He himself assumed the likeness of a horse and in this guise mated with her. From this union was born a daughter whose name could not be uttered (she was known as the Lady of the Mistress) and a horse, Areion. This horse belonged first to Oncus, and then to Heracles, who used it in the expedition against Elis and the struggle against Cycnus.
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