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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, there it is ..... No engine - no flying
Hey now, that's not fair to kites.
BOOM, hello GE...
there is a saying " Fools rush in, where wise ones fear to tread "
- IMHO, GE managers are no fools, and are not likely to rush in.
- IMHO, GE managers are no fools, and are not likely to rush in.
One of the biggest challenges of supersonic airline is the engines.
Really Tu-144 biggest failure is those terrible engines compared to Concord's Olympus 593.
No engine, no plane.
Really Tu-144 biggest failure is those terrible engines compared to Concord's Olympus 593.
No engine, no plane.
this aircraft development would have benefited a few elite in-a hurry travelers who mistakenly think their time is worth more to the world than the envirnometal damage comming up from their travels on Boom and similar aircraft. Rolls may have taken pencil to paper, firguring developmental costs divided by potential sales volume, concluding correctly this project is a loser in all aspects.
No doubt a business case for this engine could not be made, hence Rolls’ exit from the enterprise. The engine developed for Concorde was based on a military engine, and of course the whole Concorde program depended on governmental support and subsidy. Then and now a commercial supersonic airliner program isn’t viable without government money and lots of it. That’s not in the cards for Boom, so very unlikely their Overture airplane will ever make it into service.
Exactly. Certain airlines are going to look like dummies.