Trade.Information

Company Name: Supersonic Aerospace International, LLC

Company Type: Company of FAA aircraft certification sound and environmental standards

Company Profile

QSST was designed to meet, or exceed, all current and anticipated FAA aircraft certification sound and environmental standards. QSST’s sonic signature is less than 1/100th that of the Concorde - or a sound level between the interior of a car at 70 miles per hour and normal talking levels. The QSST is environmentally friendly and designed not to make sound objectionable to those on the ground below.

QUICK SOUND AND EMISSION FACTS:

LOW SOUND LEVEL:

QSST’s quiet, non-afterburning engines will permit takeoffs and landing in compliance with future FAR Pt. 36 Stage 4 sound standards.

LOW EMISSIONS:

QSST’s advanced technology and clean burning engines are designed to minimize emissions during high-altitude cruise and meet stringent FAR Part 34 emissions limitations near airports.

QSST utilizes patented innovative aerodynamic shaping and employs a patented, inverted V-tail - all instrumental in the radical reduction of QSST’s sonic sound level. Only QSST will fly at twice the speed of current business jets with a barely noticeable sonic signature - less than 1/100th that of the Concorde. QSST will be in full compliance with present and future sound and emission rules. QSST was designed with full recognition and understanding of the many programmatic and technical complexities that affect supersonic aircraft.

QSST’s engine will further enhance its superior design. The engine will be selected from one of the top three international engine manufacturers - General Electric, Pratt & Whitney, or Rolls-Royce. These three companies have proposed engine design concepts for QSST that will be state-of-the-art and designed to meet/exceed the latest emission standards. Each design concept employs a variety of techniques to suppress takeoff and landing sounds while operating at supersonic speeds with maximum combustion efficiency to minimize emissions. Most important, each engine will provide exceptional reliability and performance to meet the requirements for our aircraft and customers.

SAI and Lockheed Martin have designed a revolutionary high performance supersonic jet while maintaining the highest levels of dispatch availability, operating reliability, and regulatory compliance. Over 40 engineers, designers and technologists on the team at ’Skunk Works®’ have overcome significant engineering challenges to develop an aircraft that can be built with proven, reliable techniques without having to use exotic materials or manufacturing technologies.

In addition to ’Skunk Works’, SAI has teamed with notable aviation consultants Clay Lacy and the late Bob Cooper, former senior executive of Gulfstream, in creating this environmentally sound, pilot-friendly, passenger aircraft. QSST fulfills and integrates decades of international accomplishment in advanced aerospace design, and will forever transform how the world views and utilizes air travel.

About Company

QSST integrates state-of-the-art technologies to revolutionize business, commercial and passenger air transport. Lockheed Martin’s ’Skunk Works®’ designed QSST. QSST is the only jet that incorporates patented breakthrough aerodynamic innovations to make it possible to fly supersonic over populated continental areas. QSST’s design is feasible and should receive timely certification approval from U.S. and international aviation authorities.

Lockheed Martin comprises the best aircraft design team in the world, with 50+ years of experience in aircraft design and production, specifically supersonic aircraft. SAI’s design is grounded in Lockheed Martin’s unquestioned abilities in systems engineering and institutional aviation design. QSST draws on the legendary history and unequaled record of accomplishment of Lockheed Martin’s ’Skunk Works’, Jetstar, one of the first business jets developed, was designed by ’Skunk Works’ and is still in use today. ’Skunk Works’ has also designed such legendary aircraft as the SR-71 "Blackbird," and breakthrough aircraft as the F-117 Stealth Fighter, the F/A-22 Raptor and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce, the three leading international engine manufacturers, have proposed competing state-of-the-art engine design concepts that meet QSST performance, sound and emissions requirements. The engine design concepts will allow QSST to cruise at supersonic speeds without afterburning engines. All three engine companies promise high reliability and long core life even with the demands of sustained supersonic air flight. 

QSST promises dramatic reductions in travel time that will enable businesses, entrepreneurs, medical personnel and government/military leadership a quantum leap in productivity that will allow leaders to position personnel and equipment rapidly around the world in order to respond to global opportunities and time-sensitive situations.

QSST’s Clear Advantage Results From Our Ability to...
Be the first to market a truly global supersonic aircraft

Exploit and create global markets

Uniquely be capable of quiet supersonic flight over land

Revolutionize air travel by cutting travel time in half 
Produce range and performance statistics compatible with market demands

Meet all current and forecast regulatory requirements

Operate safely and reliably