Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]
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Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]
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#2For those wondering, it is in flight right now
Re: Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]
#3For those wondering, it is in flight right now
Watching it. :-)
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#4Mach 1.1! *Xoldplay's 'speed of sound' song starts*
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#5Is the goal to be able to supercruise, or are they just going to be to waste tons of fuel on afterburning like the Concorde?
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#6I know nothing about Boom. Why is this impressive? We've achieved supersonic for passengers before. Are we meant to be interested just because someone is taking up the mantle again, or is there some new design that makes it impressive?
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#7So funny how everything is live streamed now I like it, transparency is good
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#8I know nothing about Boom. Why is this impressive? We've achieved supersonic for passengers before. Are we meant to be interested just because someone is taking up the mantle again, or is there some new design that makes it impressive?
there hasn't been supersonic civil aviation, as far as i am aware, since the concorde was grounded. there are no active commercial aircraft capable of going supersonic.
this is significant because it's the first civil aircraft to reach that milestone since the ending of the concorde program.
Re: Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]
#9I know nothing about Boom. Why is this impressive? We've achieved supersonic for passengers before. Are we meant to be interested just because someone is taking up the mantle again, or is there some new design that makes it impressive?
Previously Boom's CEO said this:
“That’s not travel, that’s like a thing you might hope to do once in a lifetime,” says Scholl, before adding, “Versus where we want to get, which is anywhere in the world in four hours for 100 bucks.”[1]
Anywhere in the world in four hours for $100 USD really caught people's imagination and attention. I'm puzzled by how they will achieve this.
[1] https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/boom-supersonic-four-hour...
Re: Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]
#10I know nothing about Boom. Why is this impressive? We've achieved supersonic for passengers before. Are we meant to be interested just because someone is taking up the mantle again, or is there some new design that makes it impressive?
there hasn't been supersonic civil aviation, as far as i am aware, since the concorde was grounded. there are no active commercial aircraft capable of going supersonic. this is significant because it's the first civil aircraft to reach that milestone since the ending of the concorde program.
> there hasn't been supersonic civil aviation
There still isn’t, and this is not a very interesting stepping stone. We already knew that we could fly a plane quickly. This company has no engines for their allegedly full scale plane. The last manufacturer dropped them a few years ago, and there has been no movement in that direction. This demonstrates the easiest part of what they’re trying to do, not the hardest.
This is the equivalent of a hand drawn ui mockup for a future “AGI workstation”, while not at all addressing the “AGI” part