Posted on 08/16/2022 5:20:37 AM PDT by 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.
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“Wind or solar.”
Battery...with aerial recharging at some point over the Atlantic/Pacific.
Will it have battery powered engines?
As a former aviation engineer that has worked on several certification projects you are correct.
Is it me, or is “Boom” not the greatest name for a company that makes jetliners?
Whenever I hear the term “Biofuels” can’t help but think the exhaust gasses from the engines will smell like the aftermath of Three Bean Salad and Cabbage Soup, and the sonic boom will be more like “brooooooom”.
Pretty impressive if the plane has the range for TransPacific routes. As with the original Concorde, high fuel prices might spell doom for the new supersonic transport. Notice the flights are over oceans as overland supersonic flights are banned.
My favorite was the first GM electric car they named the “Impact.” That’s not what you want to think about in a car.
It was quickly rechristened as the bland “EV1.”
The “Delta Dart” maybe so, the rendering of the “Boom” not so much. CG and thrust position all wrong
You do notice it’s a three engine jet?
It will be known as The Davos Express.
Only Politicians and Billionaires will fly it.
That sounds like “eFUEL”. Atmospheric carbon from CO2 and hydrogen from H20.
I traveled at Mach 2 in the Concorde.
It's probably better than "Lawn Dart".
“Wham-O” is a toy company…aren’t you glad it’s not an airline? Would ya get in the big Wham-O bird, huh?Some brand names just don’t fit, do they.
— George Carlin
Let me know when you see one fly, then we can argue about it.
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