Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]

Post by jdminhbg » Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 6:29 PM UTC

mshook wrote: post #69

dmitrygr wrote: post #10

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> 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. Thi…

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted because you're right: they have the technology, they don't have an engine, and this just looks like a civilian version of a fighter jet pretty much (except it has 3 turbojets). And what people always fail to mention when it comes to supersonic flights is one of the main issue is neither a technological nor an economical one nor a supersonic boom one. Traveling west bound is gre…

Post by finiche » Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 6:37 PM UTC

Post by mshook » Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 6:50 PM UTC

ctippett wrote: post #56

EA-3167 wrote: post #32

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There are some interesting technological developments around fuel efficiency and minimizing the "sonic boom" that's felt on the ground. Neither of those killed Concorde though, because the entire idea of Concorde turned out to be incredibly faulty. MOST people weren't in such a hurry to get from point A to point B that they'd pay 5x-10x a normal business/first class ticket to cut a trip down by 50% or so. The intende…

On the live cast the presenter mentioned Boom have already secured ~130 pre-orders, including United Airlines. Not bad considering the Concorde anticipated 100+ orders but only manufactured a fraction of that.

Post by kjkjadksj » Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 6:57 PM UTC

Post by dylan604 » Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 7:01 PM UTC

hnuser123456 wrote: post #40

Ajedi32 wrote: post #38

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Once you get out of the atmosphere, drag (and fuel consumption) is ~0. So theoretically possible, but I'm not sure if that's what he was talking about. Certainly Overture won't be capable of that.

Fair, I hadn't considered the intercontinental ballistic passenger missile approach.