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High-Speed Horizons is a design-driven critical exploration into technology, innovation, big thinking, and our constantly changing attitudes towards the three told through visions of flight and alternative energies.

Sonic booms and nuclear power are explored as replacements to petroleum offering up new dreams of energy efficiency and innovation through technology. The project draws on the rich history of using aviation to imagine possible futures and even pasts through speculation and design fiction (more). 4 new aircrafts are proposed that are documented on the project's dedicated website.

ROLE

Concept & Design

AWARDS

Core77 Design Award

Press

Fast Company, We Make Money Not Art, PSFK, Creative Applications

Man has always looked to the sky to push the boundaries of possibility through innovation and new technologies. The concept of controlled flight has always been viewed as a test bed for radical new ideas and visions to reshape culture, politics and economics here on Earth and far beyond it.

Ideas and ideologies are embodied in the design of objects with one of the most prominent examples being aircraft. Wishful thinking of what ifs are condensed into strikingly simple and concise briefs and tested through large-scale and high budget design and engineering.

X-1SB & B-29 Duo. Counterfactual research aircraft testing the feasibility of sonic boom-powered flight.

Boomjet. A vision for sonic boom-powered commercial flight today.

Boomjet on mobile aircraft crawler.

Air Laissez-Faire. A nuclear-powered free enterprise aircraft.

Air Laissez-faire cruising with parasite commuter and private jets. Watercolor on paper by Hector Trunnec.

Fabrication Process