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Aerion Completes AS2 Wind Tunnel Testing
The completion of wind tunnel testing, along with digital modeling work, moves Aerion's AS2 supersonic jet closer to production.
Aerion Supersonic conducted both high- and low-speed wind tunnel testing, assessing thousands of parameters on its Mach 1.4 AS2 as it moves toward production and assembly in 2023. (Photo: Aerion Supersonic)
Aerion Supersonic conducted both high- and low-speed wind tunnel testing, assessing thousands of parameters on its Mach 1.4 AS2 as it moves toward production and assembly in 2023. (Photo: Aerion Supersonic)

Aerion Supersonic wrapped up low- and high-speed wind tunnel testing for its redesigned Mach 1.4 AS2 business jet, accumulating the equivalent of 78,000 nm flown and hundreds of simulated flight hours at facilities in Europe and North America. The testing, along with digital modeling, enabled Aerion engineers to assess more than 200,000 data points to validate the aerodynamic shape of the aircraft and keep the program on target for component manufacturing to begin in 2022 and AS2 assembly in 2023.


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