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Boom Supersonic rolls out its XB-1demonstrator aircraft
The rollout marks the handoff from the design, development, and build phase to testing, said Blake Scholl, Boom founder and chief executive. After undergoing a series of ground tests, the 21-meter-long aircraft will begin a flight test campaign in the third quarter of 2021 at Mojave Air and Space Port, Scholl said. "We'll be supersonic by the end of next year," he added. This is about a year later than the company's original plans. (arstechnica.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I wonder if that’s what I seen two nights ago . A plane went by so fast at nighttime it was boggling how fast
Since the plane has not yet completed ground tests and commenced flights you saw something else.
I'm guessing a 12 PX biz version only, because only billionaires will be able to keep it in the air.
"Scholl said his goal for Boom is not to reserve such rapid trips for the wealthiest customers. "We get up every day, and we want to make supersonic flight available to anyone who flies," he said. The company hopes airlines will be able to sell supersonic ticket prices at about the same fare as a business-class ticket today."
Well, it remains to be seen whether such optimistic projections will come to pass. Call it a "stretch goal".
This relatively small XB-1 is a test and research airplane, intended to support design of the proposed larger 65-to-88 pax Overture supersonic airliner. I suppose Boom could develop the XB-1 into a smaller supersonic bizjet, if enough billionaires salivate over that possibility.
Boom also has a US Air Force contract for developing a supersonic VIP aircraft. That's essentially already a bizjet.
It sounds like this is being done on a firm foundation. That AF contract should nicely take care of transition from a single seat test bed into a viable 'bizjet', and it is likely that with all that behind them, the next transition to a small commercial passenger aircraft. So I guess the big question would be, can that passenger version be made to operate at a low enough overall cost of operation to sell tickets at subsonic seat prices.
Subsonic international first class prices probably
https://youtu.be/4Ina8FFOvOg