Executive Summary The return of civilian supersonic flight is often framed as a question of scale—whether faster travel can be extended across large passenger markets at airline economics. Spike Aerospace is approaching the problem from a different direction. Rather than attempting to make supersonic travel broadly accessible, Spike is targeting…

Flight Viz: Seeing Global Aviation in Real Time At any given moment, there are typically between 12,000 and 20,000 aircraft in the air simultaneously around the world, depending on the time of day and season. Over the course of a single day, global aviation now regularly exceeds 100,000 flights. That…

Who’s building it, what it takes, and where the real investment opportunities lie Disclosure: The author is the founder of Spike Aerospace, a company developing supersonic aircraft. This analysis is based solely on publicly available information and reflects an industry perspective. Executive Summary Supersonic passenger flight is re-emerging after decades…

In a world where computing power has advanced exponentially, communication is effectively instantaneous, and global businesses operate in real time, one critical dimension has remained largely unchanged: the speed at which we move people across long distances. A flight from New York to London today takes roughly as long as…

First Transportation Mode: Travel by Camel The “need for speed” is not a modern obsession. It is a persistent human instinct—an urge to move farther, faster, and more efficiently in search of opportunity. From camels and horses to steamships and railroads, from automobiles to jet aircraft, every major leap in…