Just last month they were saying they'd be manufacturing the first aircraft in 2024. This company just looks like another huge investor scam at the moment.
Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership
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#12My understanding is that the only profitable part of being a modern commercial jet engine manufacturer is service contracts - on actually-in-service jet engines. Vs. Boom Supersonic has never built a plane which actually managed to take off. And even their 1/3-scale "technology demonstrator" plane is 5+ years behind its original schedule. (And has yet to taxi along a runway, if I read Wikipedia right.) My guess - Boo…
mmm, yes, the 'legacy business model' of demonstrably competent business decisions at the interest of shareholders that produce quantifiable return on investment and further industry growth through innovation strikes again.
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#13That seems like it would slow things down a bit, which is a problem in a higher rate world. Not sure business travel is going to stay on the same trajectory either. Of course weirder stuff is happening: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/israel-ba... Banning 4 engine aircraft from Israel means no more 747 freighters or new leisure supersonics.
Or visits from US presidents.
Actually, they carved out an exception for Air Force One.
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#14There are perhaps 3 companies on Earth that could conceivably provide engines for this application. RR was one of them. Where to now?
Couldn't SpaceX or Rocket Lab's engine be repurposed for this task?
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#15At this point I'm convinced the only way industry can actually produce something game-changing is if the government spends a huge amount of R&D on it first. On the other hand, scrappy SaaS startup could parse your logs and send alerts for cheaper, yes.
> is if the government spends a huge amount of R&D on it first.
This is how it has always worked.
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#16There are perhaps 3 companies on Earth that could conceivably provide engines for this application. RR was one of them. Where to now?
The answer is in the article... the remaining contenders are General Electric and Pratt & Whitney
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#18There are perhaps 3 companies on Earth that could conceivably provide engines for this application. RR was one of them. Where to now?
Couldn't SpaceX or Rocket Lab's engine be repurposed for this task?
SpaceX engines can clearly get you to supersonic speeds, but they're not "jets" and are much more expensive to run.
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#20There are perhaps 3 companies on Earth that could conceivably provide engines for this application. RR was one of them. Where to now?
The answer is in the article... the remaining contenders are General Electric and Pratt & Whitney
Yeah, that's the other two.
Supersonic jet engines are a rarified field. There are Russian "companies"... good luck getting that certified for Western commercial aviation.