American Airlines agrees to buy 20 supersonic planes from Boom

CNBC ^ | 16 August 2022 | Phil LeBeau

[zeestephen]

American Airlines has agreed to purchase 20 supersonic Overture planes from Boom Supersonic...Boom says the Overture jet will fly as fast as Mach 1.7, or 1,304 mph...Boom will build the jet at a new manufacturing plant in North Carolina and expects to roll out the first model in 2025, with the first flight in 2026...Overture will enter commercial service by the end of the decade.

[Jim Noble]

Sorry, I read the link.

It requires unicorn farts for fuel.

[SamAdams76]

BOOM is a very unfortunate choice of name for an airplane.

If they ever have an accident, there will be a million jokes including the two words "...goes BOOM!..."

What the hell were they thinking?

[dfwgator]

What about “Boeing”, sounds like “Boing”, as in “Boing! I think a part of the engine just flew off!”

[rktman]

Net zero eh? If any of these assclowns took into, er, do they simply ignore the production process for EVERYTHING and the petro by products required? Well, saving muvver erf aint easy. 😵🌈

[SamAdams76]

Haven’t heard that one yet and a lot of Boeings have gone down over the years.

[Roadrunner383]

Democrats and enviro-nazis will shut down the plant in 3,2,1..

[VTenigma]

This plane will never fly.

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^ This + 1

[RckyRaCoCo]

The sister-ship, “Bust”, will be much more advanced.../s

[rktman]

Been over a decade since the last NASA crewed mission. Musk and the rooskis have been taking care of it. But, Artemis is scheduled to do an uncrewed moon shot around August 28. Should be an interesting launch.

[cgbg]

“It requires unicorn farts for fuel.”

Yup—the article says “sustainable lower emissions” fuel.

Wtf is that?

[The_Media_never_lie]

Boom translates into Chinese as Bim, Bam, Bop!

[RckyRaCoCo]

I remember seeing lots of these in “Popular Mechanics” as a kid.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

And the exhaust will smell like fried chicken!

[Jim Noble]

Yup—the article says “sustainable lower emissions” fuel. Wtf is that?

Maybe it's all-electric LOL.

[cgbg]

We do live in interesting times—the question is—will another crazy conspiracy theory turn out to be conspiracy fact? The debate—one way or the other—will be over soon:

https://www.aulis.com/investigation.htm

[The_Media_never_lie]

“It requires unicorn farts for fuel.” Yup—the article says “sustainable lower emissions” fuel. Wtf is that?

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Kind of like E85 of aviation fuel?

[VTenigma]

No horizontal stabilizer, no canards, not a real design.

[CodeToad]

“This is some kind of scam, or hustle.”

It seems to be. Their engine design was reported to violate the law of physics. They were located at the airport where I flew and we all knew each other. It is a severely underfunded operation.

[Yardstick]

That name shows such questionable judgement that I’d be wary getting anywhere near their aircraft. At the very least I would wait a few years to see how they pan out. I would not be an “early adopter.”

[dynachrome]

But, but, globull warming.