Posted on 08/14/2022 2:08:17 PM PDT by DFG
The world hasn’t seen commercial supersonic travel in nearly 20 years since the Concorde was retired in 2003, but all that is about to change with the development of a new, environmentally friendly airliner.
Meet Overture – the world’s fastest airliner that was developed by Denver-based Boom Supersonic.
With 26 million hours of designing and testing, Overture will run on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) as it flies at Mach 1.7 over the ocean, shuttling between 68-80 passengers up to nearly 5,000 miles.
The updated design features four engines that will keep weight and temperature balanced, which will also lower the size requirements of the wing-mounted engines.
Boom says that smaller engines will lower the thrust requirements for each one.
And the lower the thrust – the quieter they will run.
“With no afterburners and buzz-free engines, Overture’s takeoffs will blend in with existing long-haul fleets, resulting in a quieter experience for both passengers and airport communities,” Boom said on its website.
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But can it use the Davos airport?
But we do have chimpanzees and humpy-backed camels.
90 minutes from New York to Paris, well by ‘76 we’ll be A-OK!
It hasn’t been invented yet. Not even a prototype has flown. So at this point it’s just a fairy tale.
John Kerry and Al Gore already have theirs on order. Scr3w the little people, right?
I used 24/7. (The article didn’t say man hrs)
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We did indeed, but don’t forget the cats and rats and elephants. 😂
Or put in $$ terms:
26,000,000 * $120 (fully burdened hourly rate for a fully qualified aerospace design engineer) = $3,120,000,000.
$3.12 Billion for a paper airplane...no way!
The plane pictured sure looks like it holds more than 80 passengers.
well dayum!! tha would cut the normal 14 hour trip on the first leg of my Asian excursions down to maybe 6 or 7 hours! But I doubt they would be close to the normal $457.00 rnd trip out of Ohare I am used to paying!
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That’s right! And long-necked geese!
I saw a concept sketch one time of a plane with normal size wings, but all the way to the back. Apparently their design fu is so strong they’ve overcome gravity! [eyeroll]
Those trains all graphite and glitter
Been too long - maybe 1975?
It’s amusing they call themselves Boom. One of the problems with the Concorde was of course sonic booms so that it had to be well away from a city or over the ocean before it could go supersonic. Will this thing have quieter sonic booms?
Sort of like the old Popular Mechanics covers. Still waiting for our flying cars
There may be no windshield. Video cameras.
I call BS on this technological black hole that endlessly sucks down wasted $$$.
Pick your favorite failure mode…. Capital cost way more than the amount plucked out the air by promoters, online availability much lower than claimed, way excessive maintenance costs, feedstock availability over estimated, etc.
Jimmy Carter style deja vu all over again. A game is being played out.
The supersonic aircraft itself may be an amazingly successful technology - I have no idea, outside my expertise. The trendy hook of sustainable energy is a toss out to secure funding. Reel in a big $$$ sucker.
60 - 80 passengers? Hard to see it making a profit.
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That’s one of the issues with supersonic passenger planes, you can’t have a wide fuselage cross-section, so you’re pretty well limited to 4 across seating.
Bull shit...
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