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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Too expensive to fly. Technology now allows supercruising..... flying over Mach1 without afterburners. Using afterburners uses fuel at a cosmic rate. The Concorde flew at a loss because it had to use afterburners.
Is it a division of Bombshell Industries?
In mechanical engineering, I learned “super-fast” in kinematics. That came after I learned “super-hot” in thermodynamics, “super-strong” in metallurgy and “super-conducting” in circuit design.
You beat me to it!
This is just a handshake agreement between United and one of
their VC buddies to hype some vaporware aircraft startup in exchange for some consideration way down the road if it ever actually happens. Probably won’t.
Add that it is right outside Centennial Airport, just South of Denver, address:
Boom Supersonic
12876 E Adam Aircraft Circle, Englewood, CO 80112.
The latter is for government work.
I could care less, for international flights especially I will never fly United, I am Emirates all the way.
Thanks.
I don’t know if I’d want a plane from a “start-up” much less one with “Boom” in the title
I don’t think Boom has overcome their violation of physics with their engine.
FR is the best.
“I don’t know how they came up with that figure.“
The author applied advanced journalist math and divided 7 by 2. Without a calculator, he would have struggled with that decimal point.
It'll be tough to sell faster but less fuel-efficient aircraft to regular customers when you can't already sell them to corporate customers.
This sounds like vaporware, but I’ve long complained about the lack of innovation in commercial air travel. Compared to the quantum leap from the Wright brothers to the first commercial jets in the ‘50s, the last 60 years have been pretty stagnant. Sure, there have been improvements in safety, auto-pilot and things like that. And first/business class have gotten cushier with semi-private pods, etc. But... bottom line, if I fly the U.S coast-to-coast, it’s the same damned 5 hours flight that it was a half-century ago. I know that there are problems with supersonic not only in terms of fuel consumption but also noise issues, but I truly believe that innovation is long overdue.
Short distance? How short? 200 miles or less?
Who is going to fly these “super fast” airplanes? Their diversity candidates and amazon squad?
Lazy french workers were suppose to make sure there was no debris on the runways prior to a Concord takeoff. They did not do their job and there WAS debris on the runway. The rest is history, A good plane and a lot of good people when down hard.
I thought you could only fly supersonic over the oceans?
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