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A project insider for a planned European hypersonic airliner is confident his program could in 2013 demonstrate that technological barriers can be overcome, but current economic conditions may stall the project. The European Space Agency’s Lapcat program is working on the A2 aircraft, which aims to carry passengers beyond Mach 5 in long-range flight. Johan Steelant, the program’s coordinator told the BBC that while different systems and subsystems still need to be proven, “critical technology is not longer a blocking point.” The blocking point now, it appears, may be the current atmosphere of economic austerity prevalent across Europe. But a large amount of funding has already been allocated.

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Media in Duluth, MN and Superior, WI are reporting that a deal is close to site the new factory for Kestrel Aircraft in Superior, which is a few miles from Kestrel President Alan Klapmeier’s home town of Duluth and just across the Wisconsin border. Klapmeier, who co-founded Cirrus in Duluth, took over Kestrel 18 months ago with plans to manufacture the turboprop single in Brunswick, Maine. It’s not clear what happened with the widely publicized plans to build the aircraft at a decomissioned naval air station in Brunswick.

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===> Posted on December 29th, 2011 by Janice Wood. No comments. © GAN 2011.

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