Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership
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Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership
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Re: Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership
#2The semi-snide comments from the Boom side is, as the kids would say, "sus".
Re: Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership
#3That 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.
Re: Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership
#4The semi-snide comments from the Boom side is, as the kids would say, "sus".
haha right?
"Boom meanwhile added, “We are appreciative of Rolls-Royce’s work over the last few years but have mutually concluded their proposed engine design and legacy business model is not the best option for Overture’s future airline operators or passengers.”
ssssssnap!
Re: Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership
#5There are perhaps 3 companies on Earth that could conceivably provide engines for this application. RR was one of them. Where to now?
Re: Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership
#6That 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.
Re: Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership
#7My 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 - Boom wanted RR to sign a new money-losing or zero-profit R&D deal. RR wasn't interested in the "maybe, eventually, there might be some actual profit for us" economics of that.
Re: Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership
#8At 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.
Re: Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership
#9That 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.
I would have to assume that falls under the “special permit” allowance.
> Operation of aircraft with four engines will be allowed in exceptional cases and only with a special permit.
Re: Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership
#10That 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.
Last sentence of the article:
> Operation of aircraft with four engines will be allowed in exceptional cases and only with a special permit.
I'd imagine that Air Force One will not have any trouble obtaining the special permit.