Tests with the first Romanian supersonic start mid 2011 ​

​After launching the first Romanian space rocket, the Romanian Association for Aeronautics and Astronautics, ARCA,announced that it will start tests with the first Romanian supersonic plane in mid 2011. ARCA hopes that by 2015 it will send a robot on the moon’s surface as part of the Google Luna X Prize contest where 20 organizations attend.

The association announced the E-111 project, which sees the construction of the first Romanian supersonic will reach a speed of over 1,500 km/h. Tests will start in mid 2011. The plane will be built at Ramnicu Valcea.