Not sure if this is the right place to post these, but there is a connection - and I have not been able to find these elsewhere on here.
Here are a couple of pictures of the low-boom Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST) designed by the Skunk Works for Supersonic Aerospace International (SAI).
SAI is a company run by Michael Paulsen, son of the late Gulfstream founder Allen Paulsen. Paulsen the younger is underwriting design of the QSST using money bequeathed by Paulsen the elder to realise his dream of a supersonic business-jet.
The QSST uses airframe shaping to minimise the sonic boom, hence the unusual - but dramatic - configuration. Lockheed would not build the QSST - SAI is trying to put together an industry consortium to do that, just as Aerion is - but it would be the design authority if the programme ever gets off the ground.
The Skunk Works, meanwhile, says some of the low-boom design attributes of the QSST would be useful for a supersonic long-range strike aircraft...
Here are a couple of pictures of the low-boom Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST) designed by the Skunk Works for Supersonic Aerospace International (SAI).
SAI is a company run by Michael Paulsen, son of the late Gulfstream founder Allen Paulsen. Paulsen the younger is underwriting design of the QSST using money bequeathed by Paulsen the elder to realise his dream of a supersonic business-jet.
The QSST uses airframe shaping to minimise the sonic boom, hence the unusual - but dramatic - configuration. Lockheed would not build the QSST - SAI is trying to put together an industry consortium to do that, just as Aerion is - but it would be the design authority if the programme ever gets off the ground.
The Skunk Works, meanwhile, says some of the low-boom design attributes of the QSST would be useful for a supersonic long-range strike aircraft...