Spike Aerospace News & Articles

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 [...]

Spike Aerospace, Inc.2025-04-16T17:48:17-04:00March 8th, 2025|Categories: Spike News|

Beyond the Concorde: The Future of Supersonic Flight

The Concorde, as the world’s first supersonic passenger jet, symbolized a technological leap forward, but its impact was limited by challenges in noise, fuel efficiency, and operational costs. Today, Spike Aerospace is leading a new era of supersonic travel, tackling these challenges with advanced technology to bring fast, efficient, and sustainable travel to a [...]

Spike Aerospace, Inc.2025-04-16T18:01:49-04:00November 21st, 2024|Categories: Editorial|

Faster, Smarter, Better: 10 Reasons Supersonic Flight is a Game Changer for Business

Faster, Smarter, Better: 10 Reasons Supersonic Flight is a Game Changer for Business Supersonic flight offers a number of advantages for business travel, providing tangible and strategic value for companies and professionals. Here are the top ten ways supersonic flight adds value to business travel: 1. Time Efficiency Supersonic jets can travel faster than the [...]

Spike Aerospace, Inc.2024-10-17T23:38:25-04:00October 17th, 2024|Categories: Editorial|

The Irreplaceable Role of Air Travel in the Digital Age

In an era dominated by social media and advanced digital communications, the importance of air travel may seem diminished at first glance. With virtual meetings, video conferences, and instantaneous messaging platforms becoming the norm, one might question the necessity of physical travel. Spike Aerospace believes that air travel absolutely remains a vital and irreplaceable element [...]

Spike Aerospace, Inc.2025-04-16T18:06:28-04:00December 20th, 2023|Categories: Editorial|

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 [...]

Spike Aerospace, Inc.2025-04-29T10:18:15-04:00December 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 [...]

Max Kachoria2024-05-20T11:44:03-04:00December 13th, 2022|Categories: Spike News|

Elon Musk Funds $100m XPRIZE Carbon Removal Competition

On Earth Day 2022, XPRIZE and the Musk Foundation announced the 15 winners of the $1 million Milestone Awards in the $100 million XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition. These awards recognize early-stage success and help teams scale up their solutions to address climate change through durable and measurable carbon removal. Representing nine countries, including the [...]

Max Kachoria2025-04-16T17:53:49-04:00April 26th, 2022|Categories: Environment|

Aerion Supersonic Shutting Down after 20 years

Unfortunate news that Aerion Supersonic is shutting down. A lot of good people have been working hard for years at the company to introduce their vision for supersonic flight. I personally know a number of their engineers and executives. Wish them all the best. https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2021/05/21/aerion-supersonic-abruptly-shuts-down-citing-challenges-securing-capital/5208809001/ Engineering, customers and partners are not all that are [...]

Max Kachoria2025-04-16T17:02:28-04:00May 21st, 2021|Categories: Spike News|

Supersonic Flights: Sustainable, Responsible and Game Changing Transportation

Written for Abu Dhabi Ideas 2019 In 1966, I left a remote desert village in India, with my mom, on a camel. A few weeks later, we were on our first 747 aircraft to London. That was 53 years and 38 countries ago. That one experience made all the difference in opportunities available to [...]

Max Kachoria2025-04-16T18:07:43-04:00April 9th, 2019|Categories: Editorial|

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, [...]

Spike Staff2022-10-11T16:55:19-04:00April 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 [...]

Max Kachoria2024-02-12T18:35:37-05:00March 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 [...]

Spike Staff2023-12-08T20:49:53-05:00January 24th, 2019|Categories: Spike News|