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A Bold New Era of Air Travel: Supersonic Flight Returns Over Land

June 10, 2025 — In a landmark move last week, President Trump signed an executive order directing the FAA to repeal the longstanding ban on civilian supersonic flight over land. This 1973-era restriction has for decades prevented travelers from experiencing the full potential of fast, efficient, coast-to-coast air travel. Now, that’s changing—and it’s opening the [...]

2025-06-10T23:35:05-04:00June 10th, 2025|Categories: Editorial, Spike News|

Spike Aerospace Relaunches Quiet Supersonic Jet - the Spike S-512 Diplomat

The silence is over. Spike Aerospace has returned, ready to reshape the future of flight. Over the past few years we sharpened the Spike S‑512 Diplomat concept, expanded our leadership, and refocused our strategy. Now that work shifts from drawing board to runway as we pursue low‑boom Mach 1.6 travel for global business. Based in Atlanta, GA, [...]

2025-05-12T23:01:39-04:00May 7th, 2025|Categories: Spike News|

The aerospace start-up trying to crack the cause of Concorde’s demise

The Telegram recently featured Spike Aerospace in an article (https://www.yahoo.com/tech/concorde-successor-trying-crack-achilles-120000972.html) highlighting how the company is developing a supersonic jet that directly addresses the key flaws that brought down the Concorde. Chief among those was the Concorde’s infamous sonic boom—loud enough to rattle windows and draw regulatory bans on overland flight. According to Spike CEO Vik [...]

2025-05-12T23:08:03-04:00March 8th, 2025|Categories: Spike News|

The State of Supersonic Flight – 2023

The first chapter of supersonic civilian flight ended 20 years ago when the Concorde took off for the last time from London Heathrow on its final final farewell flight, November 26, 2003. But that was just the end of the first chapter of high-speed air travel -- high noise, high emissions & fuel inefficient [...]

2025-05-12T23:08:07-04:00December 13th, 2023|Categories: Spike News|

The State of Supersonic Flight – 2022

It has been a fascinating year for civilian supersonic flight but at the end of 2022, going "faster than speed of sound" seems further away than some expected we would be at this stage. Announced delivery dates continue to slip from 2008 (Aerion I) to now promised deliveries by the end of the decade. Lots [...]

2024-05-20T11:44:03-04:00December 13th, 2022|Categories: Spike News|

Unfortunate news today—Aerion Supersonic is shutting down after 20 years

Unfortunate news today—Aerion Supersonic is shutting down A lot of talented, passionate people at Aerion Supersonic have been working incredibly hard over the years to bring their vision of supersonic travel to life. I’ve had the privilege of knowing several of their engineers and executives personally—brilliant minds and true believers in the future of [...]

2025-05-19T14:04:51-04:00May 21st, 2021|Categories: Spike News|

Ray Benvenuti Joins Spike Aerospace Executive Team

September 2020 – Spike Aerospace is proud to announce Ray Benvenuti is joining their Executive team with the goal of accelerating the company’s expansion and development of the Spike Supersonic Jet. Benvenuti is a senior executive and board member with decades of experience in finance, operations and advisory roles with private equity, aerospace and [...]

2023-12-04T20:24:03-05:00September 22nd, 2020|Categories: Spike News, Team|

Brian Foley to Bring Aviation Marketing Expertise to Spike Aerospace

BOSTON, MA, Wed September 16, 2020 – Brian Foley, long-time business jet industry executive turned aviation industry strategist, is the latest senior executive to join the Spike Aerospace as an executive advisor.  He brings his expertise in marketing and business strategy to the company as the Spike S-512 supersonic jet program continues to expand. [...]

2023-12-04T20:24:18-05:00September 16th, 2020|Categories: Spike News, Team|

John Thomas, former CEO Virgin Australia Airlines, Joins Spike Aerospace Executive Team

BOSTON, MA, Mon July 27, 2020 – John Thomas, the former Group Executive (CEO) of Virgin Australia Airlines, has joined Spike Aerospace Executive Team, to help introduce the company’s supersonic jet to the world’s major airlines. "Spike Aerospace’s vision for supersonic flight is tremendously compelling and ideally suited for all the major international airlines. [...]

2023-12-04T20:24:27-05:00July 27th, 2020|Categories: Spike News, Team|

Windowless Airplanes: The Future of Flight?

The Spike S-512 supersonic jet, still in development, will offer incredible displays of the outside world with the option to watch a movie or work from your laptop — all on full-length high-definition displays. One of the most exciting innovations on the Spike Supersonic Jet, other than flying faster than the speed of sound, [...]

2022-10-11T16:55:19-04:00April 4th, 2019|Categories: Spike News|

Faster, Further, For All – The Future of Transport, 2019 Ideas Abu Dhabi Conference

Vik Kachoria, President and CEO of Spike Aerospace, will be speaking at the 2019 Ideas Abu Dhabi conference. The event features very focused sessions designed to tackle large, complex challenges from many angles. The intent is to allow for enough focus and perspective to further understanding and advance potential solutions. Over the course of two [...]

2024-02-12T18:35:37-05:00March 22nd, 2019|Categories: Spike News|

Spike Aerospace to Present at Dubai’s Global Investment in Aviation Summit 2019

  Spike Aerospace President & CEO, Vik Kachoria, will be speaking the Global Investment in Aviation Summit in Dubai on Jan 27-29, 2019. He will be speaking on the company's vision for supersonic flight, the market opportunity and recent developments. Spike Aerospace is reintroducing supersonic flight -- this time quieter, safer, more efficient and super [...]

2023-12-08T20:49:53-05:00January 24th, 2019|Categories: Spike News|
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