T-11 Days to the High Speed Flight AIAA HSAT 7th Edition. As we get ready for the final countdown, let me kick off the conversation with our baseline industry vertical: The High Speed Transonic Mach .90+ established fleet of more than 1,500 Bombardier Global 6000-6500-7000-7500 and the upcoming 8000 (backlogs), Dassault Falcon Jet 8X-10X (backlogs) and the Gulfstream Aerospace G 650-700-800 largest fleet of all high speed transonic. Check out Honeywell report for details on the 10 year business aviation forecast, and be ready to interact about it at HSAT, a lot of substance and "tailwinds" in the report.I spent most of last week at NBAA BACE in Las Vegas and I am glad to report that the tailwinds that this industry segment are way stronger than the headwinds. Which is a great foundation for upcoming supersonic and hypersonic new entrants. I enjoyed the conversation with Bombardier's technical sales team about how "software updates" for the Global 7000 platform's increased the Max Mach for the 8000. As you all know, I am bullish that we can push these aircraft to Mach 1.2 in the Max Mach cut-off transonic range, this is my opinion. But the fact is that OEM programs can only make sense when the platforms can grow into a "family" of aircraft with continuous Performance Improvement Packages) Time will tell. At HSAT, I will lead a track on this industry segment and we will have plenty to discuss and a few action items to position the segment as best as we can to support Mach 1+ vehicles, see you Midland International Air & Space Port and The University of Texas Permian Basin.
TAILWINDS- 168+ billion of high speed, large cabin and long range business jets are on order for the next decade, indeed that is almost $17B per year for the next ten years of the fastest planes in production in the world. Speed matters, and speed is wanted, considering the average price for these exquisite speedsters is $60-75 million. Stay tuned, much more to come.
HEADWINDS- Gulfstream and Dassault's absence from the show was hard to believe and sorely missed by many. Yet, corporate strategies, politics and the headwinds of environmental push back against private, business and special mission flying have a lot to do with it. We have a lot to do on messaging as we saw at last year HSAT, but I believe we have turned that corners, and we are moving now to rigorously present the facts and science of high altitude, speed and other impacts vs. the benefits to society, politics and the advancement and flourishing of economies and societies thanks to these time making fast aircraft. Overall, a positive outlook, yet challenges and barriers into the next decades need to be radar-scanned continuously.
See you soon, as always contact me for inputs for HSAT and visit our website frequently, the final program is about to be release! Until then, Fly Fast, fly Safe InterFlight Global Corporation IFG Capital Boeing Research & TechnologyNASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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11moWe had a great time networking at the MRO show.