Posted on 03/25/2024 11:07:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
Inaugural flight marks major milestone toward return of supersonic travel. XB-1 provides the foundation for Boom’s supersonic airliner, Overture.
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Today, Boom announced the successful flight of XB-1, the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet, at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, California. Like Overture, Boom’s supersonic airliner, XB-1 leverages state-of-the-art technologies to enable efficient supersonic flight including carbon fiber composites, advanced avionics, digitally-optimized aerodynamics, and an advanced supersonic propulsion system.
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“Today, XB-1 took flight in the same hallowed airspace where the Bell X-1 first broke the sound barrier in 1947,” said Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic. “I’ve been looking forward to this flight since founding Boom in 2014, and it marks the most significant milestone yet on our path to bring supersonic travel to passengers worldwide.”
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Hopefully not designed by that recent sub company disaster.
Boeing is a textbook example of management trying to be a model of DEI support. If you don’t have math skills, you can’t be an engineer, well you can, but not one who I’d trust building planes or bridges...
Looks more comfortable than a People’s Express flight I was on from O’Hare to Hartford in the 1990s.
“Why not just take the Concorde specs and work from there?”
Horrible fuel burn per seat mile.
https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/energyresources/article-abstract/118/3/170/405906/JP-8-100-The-Development-of-High-Thermal-Stability?redirectedFrom=fulltext
“Carbon fiber is strong in tension, weak in compression.”
I’m wondering how using a monocoque technique would change those dynamics.
My main experience is with carbon fiber windsurfing equipment and bicycles. My 12 pound road bike frame has 30k+ miles carrying my 225lb butt around with no issues, and when monocoqued windsurfing booms came out I stopped breaking them.
With the success of the test, I read that it is laying the foundations for the commercialisation of Overture, Boom’s production aircraft that will carry 64-80 passengers at Mach 1.7 (1,304 mph). A typical airline travels 547–575 mph. Overture will be able to fly from New York to London in half the time—3-1/2 hours.
Stresses on a bike frame are a bit more complicated than on a pressurized tube.
Seems to me:
The seat tube, forks, and the head tube would be in compression, lengthwise (not from outside pressure like a submarine hull)
The top tube, down tube, and stays would be in shear and tension.
In the submarine application, the hull tube is in compression on the thickness of the hull. In your bicycle, the down tube and forks (for example) are in compression along the length of the tube.
My bad.
“X” always indicates ‘experimental’ aircraft.................
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Yes. I remember when Carter cancelled it.
I liked the Punisher intake covers in that photo.
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