As a result, if a government pays for the construction of something, whether a school or a fighter jet, that will show up as government activity in the national figure.
After years of naysayers decrying the proposition of a new generation of supersonic passenger aircraft as economically unviable, one company in recent weeks has started taking orders for a business jet that will travel at Mach 1.5 and start test flights in 2019.
The loan is to pay for a larger jet that will operate between the island and London Gatwick airport after Flybe pull out in March 2014.
Swiss Space Systems could arrive late this year with an Airbus jet that will fly parabolic arcs to expose customers and researchers to brief periods of weightlessness.
Just last year, for example, Airbus, the European consortium that manufactured the plane that crashed Monday, announced its plans for a super jumbo jet that will offer unheard-of luxury on two decks.
That's how Cirrus Design, the single-engine-airplane maker in Duluth, Minn., is developing a single-engine jet that will seat up to seven and fly at 345mph.
Another American company, Spike Aerospace, is developing a Mach 1.6 business jet that will have its windows replaced with internal video screens, linked to external cameras, to reduce the aircraft's weight.
On the day of the Concorde crash, Airbus was announcing the first orders for a new double-decker jet that will carry up to 650 passengers (see article).The first Concorde flew in 1969 and the aircraft entered commercial service in 1976.
One new aircraft that was announced at Farnborough was the Bombardier CSeries, a 110- to 130-seat jet that will enter service with Lufthansa in 2013 and will compete with the smallest versions of the A320 and 737.
Instead, consider the two largest civilian aviation projects now under way, which have more modest goals: the Airbus A380, a double-decker four-engine jet that will at first carry 555 passengers and eventually 650; and the Boeing 7E7, which is supposed to use 15 to 20percentt less fuel than today's comparable planes.
The superpower is developing a prototype of an X-47B tailless, unmanned aircraft – which has ten times the range of a normal F-25 fighter jet – that will be able to take off in all weather conditions, fly in swarms and refuel in mid air.
