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Supersonic aircraft startup Exosonic is shutting down


Exosonic, a startup developing supersonic commercial air travel and UAV tech, is winding down after five years of operation. In an update posted to its

Exosonic, a startup developing supersonic commercial air travel and UAV tech, is winding down after five years of operation. Exosonic was founded in 2019 by Norris Tie, a propulsion engineer who cut his teeth at primes like Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin; at the latter company he reportedly worked on the low-boom X-59 aircraft for NASA. The company was making progress: it hit a major milestone earlier this year when it flew its first aircraft, a sub scale variant of its supersonic UAV called EX-3M Trident, in a test flight in California.

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