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Boom Supersonic will be partnering with FlightSafety International (FSI) to train pilots, mechanics, and cabin crew for its upcoming Overture aircraft. Together, the two companies, who are promising to bring back supersonic travel, will cooperate and develop training programs and curriculums for Overture crews. According to the aircraft maker, the extensive training program will draw [...]
Being supersonic involves a lot more than a cool-looking aircraft. You need engines that can push the jet past Mach 1 (767.3 miles per hour, 1,268 km per hour). These days, any jet maker also needs to consider sustainability, reliability and lower noise levels—in other words, mitigating sonic booms—that made the Concorde famous, and in [...]
Boom is attempting to revive the concept of a supersonic airliner, last explored by the legendary Concorde in the 1970s. After being shunned by the civilian market, Boom Supersonic will team up with another US-based startup, Kratos Defense, to develop an engine capable of powering supersonic airliners. Kratos’ Florida Turbines Technologies will lead the design [...]
NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 now has the engine that will power it in flight. The installation of the F414-GE-100 engine took place at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, earlier this month, marking a major milestone as the X-59 approaches the completion of its assembly. The 13-foot-long engine from General Electric Aviation packs [...]
Boom Technology’s plan to introduce an ultra-high-speed commercial jet by 2029 are complicated by the lack of participation from aircraft engine developers. CFM International will not be the engine supplier to Boom Technology in that company’s development of an ultra-high-speed aircraft – a “supersonic jet” that reportedly will travel at up to Mach 1.7 (1,307 [...]
Last year United Airlines placed an order for Boom Aerospace’s promised Supersonic jets. This summer American Airlines followed suit. Japan Airlines is an investor in the company. And yet most people in aviation think that the plane will never be built. Is it just the skepticism of the status quo? Certainly aviation can be a [...]
Boom's supersonic jet is facing a lack of interest from engine suppliers. Manufacturers say supersonic travel is 'tangential' and are focusing on efficiency instead. Boom recently lost its jet engine partner for the Overture supersonic jet, and other major engine manufacturers aren't interested in the project either, Insider has reported. After Boom signed an "engagement [...]
In the pursuit of speed, humans invented steamships, railroads, airplanes, and jet planes, accelerating transport with each invention. The 1960's Jet Age brought us the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 to cut Atlantic crossing in half, from 12 to 6.5 hours. The next generations of jets shrank the world further in the 1990s and beyond [...]
Rolls-Royce is pulling out of Boom’s supersonic jet project, two years after signing a collaboration agreement. “We’ve completed our contract with Boom and delivered various engineering studies for their Overture supersonic program,” Rolls-Royce said in a statement to AeroTime. “After careful consideration, Rolls-Royce has determined that the commercial aviation supersonic market is not currently a [...]
Rolls-Royce is pulling out of Boom’s supersonic jet project, two years after signing a collaboration agreement, according to an AIN report. “We’ve completed our contract with Boom and delivered various engineering studies for their Overture supersonic program,” Rolls-Royce said in a statement to AIN. “After careful consideration, Rolls-Royce has determined that the commercial aviation supersonic [...]
