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Military Moves Forward with Plan to Make Air Force One Supersonic | Military.com

By Thomas A. Smith

The U.S. Air Force has taken initial steps to begin prototyping a supersonic aircraft that could someday carry the president around the world in half the time.

Last month, the service’s Presidential and Executive Airlift Directorate awarded a $1 million small business innovation research (SBIR) phase II contract to Exosonic, a start-up aerospace company, to begin the design and development of a low-boom executive airlift concept.

via www.military.com

This is complete bullsh*t, IMHO. For the billions this thing will cost, we could pay off teeny tiny bit of our ginormous debt. But heck, why not, it’s free, right!