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American Airlines Agrees to Buy 20 Supersonic Planes from Boom
American Airlines has agreed to purchase 20 supersonic Overture planes from Boom Supersonic, the companies announced Tuesday. (www.cnbc.com) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
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Of course, this aircraft will become obsolete as soon as SpaceX manages to get its Starship human rated and into service for point-to-point service. New York to Sydney, London or Tokyo is an hour or even less, at Business Class prices, not Premium First Class. No SST can compete with that.
The negativity is EPIC on this board.... if this were the 1800's you would all be saying human flight is impossible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_XB-1#Development
Read the Development and Testing sections.
Initially intended to make its first subsonic flight in late 2017. Almost 5 years later and it's not even moved under its own power yet. And this is only a one third scale model.
Search for the development history of other aircraft which eventually led to Concorde. The Fairey Delta 2 was used to test the ogee delta wing that ended up being used on Concorde. The FD2 first flew in October 1954. Concorde wouldn't take to the skies for another 18½ years.
This plane from Boom won't make it into airline service. Ever.
Read the Development and Testing sections.
Initially intended to make its first subsonic flight in late 2017. Almost 5 years later and it's not even moved under its own power yet. And this is only a one third scale model.
Search for the development history of other aircraft which eventually led to Concorde. The Fairey Delta 2 was used to test the ogee delta wing that ended up being used on Concorde. The FD2 first flew in October 1954. Concorde wouldn't take to the skies for another 18½ years.
This plane from Boom won't make it into airline service. Ever.
Boom has yet to fly their 1/3 scale prototype. Target date has been pushed forward several times...
Needs to be redesigned now. XB-1 doesn’t resemble a scaled down Overture enough for test data to be worth it.
Ignoring history inevitably leads to failure. Concorde development costs alone came to 2.8 billion USD. This after estimating it would cost 130 million. Not a penny of that money was recovered. It never made any money for BA or AF. The restrictions on that craft are still in place and will apply, if it gets off the ground, to this. I remember it landing at my Base in Halifax NS, with mechanical problems and had the dubious distinction of helping BA crews with an engine change. This was almost an annual occurrence and only 40-70 passengers were ever onboard. An impressive aircraft.