Hard Reset: 3x faster air travel
Hard Reset: 3x faster air travel
This supersonic jet engine could change everything.
Watch Time | 20:31 Minutes
3x faster air travel at a fraction of the price
The electric supersonic engine
In the 20 years since The Concorde has flown, there really hasn’t been a new supersonic travel service for passengers. But Astro Mechanica is here to change that, while revolutionizing flight as we know it. It’s the closest thing to time travel we may ever get in our lifetimes.
This new kind of jet engine could unlock affordable supersonic flight for everyone, allowing a trip to anywhere on the globe in a fraction of the time it takes now. Astro Mechanica’s Generation 3 turboelectric adaptive jet engine is paving the way for cheaper, faster flights, and doing it with carbon neutral fuel.
The Hard Reset team got to witness one of the company’s first hotfire tests of the Gen 3 engine in their San Francisco headquarters. Can this tech unlock a new future in air travel?
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Nick Tucker is a Director for Freethink and co-creator of the series Hard Reset.