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Ian Brooke wants to revolutionize flight as we know it

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Ian Brooke is CEO of Astro Mechanica , a Y Combinator -backed startup that has invented a new kind of jet engine.

It’s radically more efficient and versatile than anything that has come before.

The company intends for their plane and engine to be powered with LNG , rather than jet fuel.

Ian Brooke grew up in rural Sonoma County , California , with boundless curiosity.

He wanted to build his own aerospace company Astro Mechanica to fly his dream plane.

The startup is currently working on a prototype jet engine that uses LNG .

The company is planning to demonstrate a 25 -size private jet on October 25 .

Astro Mechanica plans to fly a plane nonstop from San Francisco to Tokyo at supersonic speeds.

The company is pursuing a government project, the details of which the company said it could not discuss.

Brooke intends to first use this engine to power a mothership that will launch small, satellite-carrying rockets into space.