Posted on 06/03/2021 10:06:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The carrier announced Thursday it’s buying 15 planes from Boom Supersonic with the option to purchase 35 more at some point.
Boom’s first commercial supersonic jet, the Overture, has not been built or certified yet. It is targeting the start of passenger service in 2029 with a plane that could fly at Mach 1.7 and cut some flight times in half. That means a flight from New York to London that typically lasts seven hours would only take 3½ hours.
Earlier this year, United took a stake in eVTOL start-up Archer Aviation while partnering with Mesa Airlines to order 200 electric aircrafts being designed to fly short distances. That came after United announced a multimillion dollar investment in a carbon capture start-up and committed to be carbon-neutral by 2050.
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What ever happened to the Concorde?
I had no idea that was an engineering term?
Give me $500 million today and I promise to give you a plane ride in 2028 @ mach 2.1. Fueled by unicorn magic dust and daisies.
United is evil.
Check is in the mail
The energy crisis.
If this isn't a cult, I don't know what is. Leftists should never, ever criticize organized religion again.
“The energy crisis.” Jimmy Carter?
There are lots of similar engineering terms.
For example, an initial answer to a question based on little information is a WAG (Wild-ass Guess). If it is based on no information, it’s a SWAG.
Then there’s a ROM (Rough Order of Measure) Sometimes misstated as a “Rough Order of Magnitude, which is kind of scary. A rough order of measure could be “well, it’s somewhere between ten and fifteen”. A rough order of magnitude could be “well, it’s somewhere between a hundred and a billion”.
Catastrophic accident after takeoff in the early 2000s grounded the whole Concorde fleet.
They’re going to have to do a helluva lot of “carbon capture” to make up for an SST. Especially since there is no real effective way to do it.
Boom Supersonic. Did Gateway Pundit buy an airline?
I’ve had conversations with people about how many units they will require.
They say they “Don’t know”.
I say, “1? 10? 100? 1000? What do you think?”
They say they “Don’t know”.
I say, “Then we’re not ready to discuss this.”
The Concorde put prestige over efficiency, a principle that was possible in an era when passengers were willing to pay for it. From a modern-day business point of view, the whole project should probably have been grounded well before the 1980s.
Yep, Jimmah's energy crisis and the new era of eco Nazi's.
Is Boom an American company? Never heard of it.
That was the final straw.Despite its innovations, the Concorde wasn’t a monument to efficiency. The Concorde was designed well before the oil-price shock of the 1970's, so even though it was a masterpiece in engineering, it was effectively a fuel to speed converter. Its high energy consumption simply made it unprofitable in an era of high fuel prices. The Concorde put prestige over efficiency, a principle that was possible in an era when passengers were willing to pay for it. From a modern-day business point of view, the whole project should probably have been grounded well before the 1980s.
“What ever happened to the Concorde?”
Air France Flight 4590
Boom Technology, Inc. is an American company headquartered in Centennial, Colorado that is designing a Mach 2.2, 55-passenger supersonic airliner. Named the Boom Overture, the airliner will have a range of 4,500 nmi and will be introduced in 2030.
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