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Posted on 10/29/2025 7:49:04 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Aviation Ping!.....................
A long, skinny fuselage isn’t going to hold many passengers. No chance of it being a commercial success when it is scaled up to airliner size.
Probably could develop a corporate jet to shuttle the elites to Davos.
Boom Supersonic already has its factory at the Greensboro, NC airport.
It doesn’t make a supersonic boom and will be better than the Concord of the 70s.
It’s about a 10 minute drive from my aunt’s house.
Flies up to one passenger, quite a breakthrough. Nice PR for Sean Duffy.
We grew up with sonic booms galore. I'm about to turn 70, and I am just fine.
Grew up in Kalifornia, when it was California and Reagan Country. Military bases everywhere, and we looooved all the jets and sonic booms.
Back in January, the company Boom Supersonic successfully tested their own supersonic aircraft with the aim of returning supersonic service to the world’s skies. The FR article I read didn’t mention any new, boom-dampening technologies discussed hereby. Only that they were trying to get a craft ready for commercial use into production. The original post here reminded me of Boom Supersonic’s efforts.
You beat me to the mention of Boom Supersonic!
Just keep all CCP engineers (spies) away from the project.
Let China develop new technology without looking over Uncle Sam’s shoulder.
Hear, hear! The jets coming and going from the AFB in the Upper Peninsula dropped sonic booms from time to time, I considered it a treat, growing up in The Boonies, where other interruptions would include dogs barking and hogs squealing somewhere in 3/4 mile radius. Complaints about sonic booms are just one somewhere in a long series of Karenisms, along with various food allergies, free speech, Donald Trump's East Wing renovation, and the global warming hoax, among many others.
Looks like a pelican
I was thinking ‘lawn dart’................
You could stuff a lot of people into that nose cone. Not much less comfortable than coach.
Still saying that a 4 engine jet that seats 60 in business class isn’t going to be economically viable in commercial service. And it doesn’t have the range for really long flights where the speed would be a big selling point - it looks like it might have the range, at most, to go Atlanta or Charlotte to London. Dallas to Paris or Frankfurt would be out.
Boom is going to serve a niche market at best.
I think they are hiding the fact that this is a military aircraft in plane sight. (Pun intended) A very fast, high-flying, silent plane might have a lot of uses if it could also make it stealthy
It looks the opposite of stealthy.
And they might want to ask Francis Gary Powers about the utility of speed and altitude in keeping one safe.
Boom is not close to production - they are looking at 2028 or later. Also creating their own engines and airframe is risky. FAA cert is a long path, esp in recent years. Add a small market segment and fuel costs, they have a long way to viability. Sustainment alone will be tricky.
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