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Rolls Royce Withdraws from Boom Supersonic Partnership
Rolls Royce and Boom conclude their partnership for the development of the engines on their Boom Overture aircraft. This leaves the 2029 date for the Overture looking less likely. (aeroxplorer.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Boom goes Zoom. Cheaper. Faster.
The critical comments are interesting. My view is that too much negative stuff inhibits actual innovation. I like to imagine that Wiulber and Orville set out to make a better bicycle and wound up with this funny contraption that flys. Too bad they didn't survive, and their know-it-all critics did. So maybe commercial supersonic flight actually isn't feasible, but the new stuff we might learn in the process is forever lost if we don't do the work.
Comparing a multi billion dollar investment to a plane put together in a garage by 2 guys is beyond ridiculous.
For a few billion, a bizjet 1+ planform is possible though not likely... same over water only restrictions as ever, but intercontinental surely. Maybe Elon could design a horizontal rocket 12-15 pax system...
He has my numbers. People stupid enough to spend millions for a suborbital hop would blow billions to get to London in thirty minutes from Miami...
He has my numbers. People stupid enough to spend millions for a suborbital hop would blow billions to get to London in thirty minutes from Miami...
I remember when a bunch of guys at the AF Association set-up at the Shoreham in Washington were there at past midnight watching the chandeliers being moved aside for this enormous GE engine to be wheeled in for tomorrow's display. The engine has to come first. I was the guy who asked "Wonder what the plane is going to look like?"
They could still go PW or GE.