The jet engine powering 3x faster air travel | Hard Reset

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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, and see if this tech is truly set to unlock a whole new future of air travel.

Timestamps:
0:00: Welcome to Hard Reset
2:54: Astro Mechanica HQ
4:24: An affordable, electric plane
4:52: The tech powering AM
5:41: A turboelectric, adaptive engine
10:22: Chaos vs. order
13:13: Choosing liquified natural gas
14:53: The hot fire test
16:42: The toast test
18:30: A ‘Hard Reset’ on air travel

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