To the marketers at Boom, what a terrible name choice for an air plane company fellows.
American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
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Re: American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Biofuels is ecological fraud. It is not sustainable. And is there a synthetic fuel plant with zero impact at any scale already? No, this is just wasting more fuel for the heck of it.
Are you saying that sustainable synthetic fuels can't exist? Or don't current exist? Because those are two very different statements.
Well, it requires a lot of power, so building a large plant will be difficult and expensive.
Re: American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
#183Overture is being designed to carry 65 to 80 passengers at Mach 1.7 over water — or twice the speed of today’s fastest commercial aircraft — with a range of 4,250 nautical miles. Optimized for speed, safety and sustainability, Overture is also being designed to fly more than 600 routes around the world in as little as half the time. Flying from Miami to London in just under five hours and Los Angeles to Honolulu in t…
> over water
All the imagined routes are over large bodies of water. Is it key to the functionality or intent of the aircraft in some way? Why not NYC to LAX in 3 hours?
Re: American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
Biofuels is ecological fraud. It is not sustainable. And is there a synthetic fuel plant with zero impact at any scale already? No, this is just wasting more fuel for the heck of it.
> is there a synthetic fuel plant with zero impact at any scale already? No, this is just wasting more fuel for the heck of it cool, so you're on board with nuclear + hydro as a more sustainable base load solution than lithium-based batteries
Lithium based batteries don't produce power.
Re: American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
If this is achieved without afterburners (as I understand it is), then yes, this is an immense difference in fuel consumption and radically impacts the economics.
Concorde only used afterburner(en_us)/reheat(en_uk) for a small part of the acceleration phase of the flight not for cruise.
It's en_gb and not en_uk (although UK is exceptionally reserved [1], and we recently begun using UK on car nationality identifier stickers).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#Exceptional...
Re: American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
> coach class all the way Has there been a render of the interior or something?
There is on the Boom site, and it certainly doesn't look like regular cattle class https://boomsupersonic.com/static/images/overture-experience...
I can't see how that seat could possibly transform to lie flat and it's a dud if they try to get people to pay big money for non-lie flat seats.
Re: American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
#187Overture is being designed to carry 65 to 80 passengers at Mach 1.7 over water — or twice the speed of today’s fastest commercial aircraft — with a range of 4,250 nautical miles. Optimized for speed, safety and sustainability, Overture is also being designed to fly more than 600 routes around the world in as little as half the time. Flying from Miami to London in just under five hours and Los Angeles to Honolulu in t…
> over water All the imagined routes are over large bodies of water. Is it key to the functionality or intent of the aircraft in some way? Why not NYC to LAX in 3 hours?
Because of the sonic boom, you can't be flying over inhabited areas. Regulations prohibit that.
Re: American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
#188Overture is being designed to carry 65 to 80 passengers at Mach 1.7 over water — or twice the speed of today’s fastest commercial aircraft — with a range of 4,250 nautical miles. Optimized for speed, safety and sustainability, Overture is also being designed to fly more than 600 routes around the world in as little as half the time. Flying from Miami to London in just under five hours and Los Angeles to Honolulu in t…
> over water All the imagined routes are over large bodies of water. Is it key to the functionality or intent of the aircraft in some way? Why not NYC to LAX in 3 hours?
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Probably will be very expensive but it's exciting for future possibilities Are you kidding me! I cant recall the last time I DIDN'T need to be in Honolulu in THREE HOURS!! This is a life changer for my Macadamia nut Addiction... --- In all seriousness, the best commercial prospect for this is high-speed-cargo. Need a part from GuangZhu like TODAY? Need an organ transplant from Ohio to Munich, TODAY? Need to fire 90…
> a range of 4,250 nautical miles. > Need a part from GuangZhu CAN-LAX is 6,284 nm. > Ohio to Munich OK that can work, CLE-MUC is 3,759 nm.
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Re: American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
ah, neat! looks like they recently switched from 3x turboprop to 4x turbofan edit: had to correlate sources to find that a bunch of popular aviation blogs got the original design wrong. was actually 3x turbofan -> 4x turbofan
Everyone claiming you are wrong hasn't bothered to google. Literally the first response for "overture turboprop" is a series of articles confirming what you said. > The Overture supersonic aircraft will be powered by three turboprop engines, which includes two that will be mounted under each wing, while the third engine will be fitted at the end of the fuselage. https://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/overture-…
It’s like claiming an upcoming Tesla model will use Ni-Cd batteries. No matter how many blogs claim it, it's clearly wrong.