2008
Apr. 1 - "NASA Buys out XCOR Aerospace" (Aero-News.net: april fools!)
Mar. 31 - "Xcor Aerospace unveils rocket powered Lynx vehicle design" (Flight International)
Mar. 30 - "Another Firm [XCOR] Joins the Commercial Space Race" (Washington Post)
Mar. 30 - "Small Company [XCOR] Jumps in Big Bucks Commercial Space Travel Fray" (theMONEYTimes)
Mar. 28 - "Off to Space aboard an XCOR Lynx" (GeekZone, video)
Mar. 27 - "Space Cadets, Grab Your Sunscreen: Space Tourism Set for Liftoff" (Scientific American)
Mar. 27 - "XCOR Unveils Suborbital Spacecraft Plans" (Aviation Week)
Mar. 27 - "Xcor's Lynx rocket plane joins space tourism race" (LA Times)
Mar. 27 - "Aerion has appointed Aero Toy Store as a factory-authorised representative for its supersonic business jet" (Flight International)
Mar. 26 - "XCOR Wins Contract for Operations Demonstrations With New Suborbital Vehicle" (SpaceRef.com)
Mar. 26 - [XCOR] "Economy Fare ($100,000) Lifts Space-Tourism Race" (Wall Street Journal)
Mar. 26 - "XCOR Unveils New Suborbital Rocketship" (space.com [engine test fire video])
Mar. 26 - "XCOR Aerospace Suborbital Vehicle to Fly within Two Years" (XCOR press release & YouTUBE video simulation of flight)
Feb. 25 - "ExecuJet opens Singapore hanger (and deposits for Aerion SSBJ)" (Flight International)
Feb. 1- "A Ferrari for the Skies" (Businessweek, www.sci-tech-today.com)
Jan. 23 - "Virgin Galactic Tourist Spaceship Design Unveiled in New York" (foxnews)
Jan. 23 - "Virgin Galactic Unveils Spaceship" (NY Times, ap)
Jan. 23 - "Branson's vision for space travel – named after his mum" (The Independent, UK)
Jan. 23 - "Virgin Galactic Unveils Suborbital Spaceliner Design" (space.com)
Jan. 23 - "Virgin Galactic Unveils New Designs" (Popular Science)
Jan. 14 - "Rocket Racing League® Breaks Ground on Aerospace Business Park with First Phase Hangers" (Rocket Racing League® press release)
2007
Dec. 12 - "Aerion secures letters of intent for supersonic business jet" (Flight International)
Nov. 15 - "Dubai 2007: Royal deposit boosts Aerions quest for supersonic business jet" (Flight International)
Nov. 14 - "Dubai 2007: UAE Sheik signs for Aerion supersonic business jet" (Flight International)
Nov. 11 - "Dubai 2007: ExecuJet opens order book for Aerion SSBJ" (Flight International)
Oct. 26 - "X Prize Cup brings outer space to New Mexico" (news.com)
Oct. 4 - "Gulfstream develops low-boom supersonic nozzle for SSBJ" (Flight International)
Oct. - "Rocket Racing League web site (...to advance the technology and increase public awareness of space travel.)" (Rocket Racing League and Popular Science)
Oct. 1 - "Risk-sharing could make Aerion's SSBJ dream fly" (Flight International)
Sep. 26 - "Supersonics at NBAA 2007" (Aviation Week Show News, pp. 88) Aerion cabin mock-up
Sep. 25 - "Supersonics at NBAA 2007" (Aviation Week Show News, pp. 4, 22, 64, 66 and 119)
Sep. - "The Super-Slow Emergence of Supersonic" (Business and Commercial Aviation)
Sep. - "Gentlemen, Start Your Rockets" (Business Week) -- though the racers are subsonic, at least for now
July - "X-51A to demonstrate first practical scramjet" (Flight International and Designation-Systems.Net)
July - "NASA studies effects of sonic booms" (AV Press and Daily News)
July 10 - "NASA could put F-16XL back in the air" (Flight International)
July - "NASA to fly F-16XL again" (Flight International)
July 4 - "European SSBJ design enters windtunnels tests at ONERA" (Flight International)
July - "New supersonic business jet takes shape" (New Scientist)
June 21 - "Would-be supersonic business jet manufacturer Aerion confident of signing industrial partners by year-end" (Flight International)
June 21 - "Swing-wing SSJB has big advantages, say [European] study" (Flight International)
June 19 - "Variable geometry lowers supersonic cruise altitude" (Flight International)
June 18 - "Aerion's Telling the World It's Real" (Aviation Week)
June - Picture: "Aerion refines supersonic business jet design" (Flight International)
June 19 - "Aerion tweaks SSBJ in bid to snare manufacturers" (Flight International)
June - "First supersonic business jet planned" (Detroit News)
June 18 - "Sssh! Quiet SBJ design is almost ready" (Flight International)
June 13 - "Supersonic Aerospace refines design of low-boom QSST" (Flight International)
Apr. 11 - "US Air Force awards XCOR Aerospace with reusable launch vehicle demonstrator contract" (Flight International)
April - "Quiet boom could revive supersonic air travel" (Physics Today)
March - "All Sonic, No Boom" (Popular Science)
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