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The Boom factory will be sized to assemble up to 100 aircraft per year for a 1,000- to 2,000-aircraft potential market over 10 years. [ 7 ] Boom plans to target $5,000 fares for a New York-to-London round-trip, while the same on Concorde cost $20,000 adjusted for inflation ; it was its only profitable route. [ 8 ]
The unit cost was predicted to be US$120 million at the May 2015 EBACE. [6] In May 2015, NASA contracted Rockwell Collins to model supersonic boom on ground: predicting sonic booms and allowing pilots to see affected areas could ease restrictions against supersonic flights over inhabited areas. [7]
The XB-1 Baby Boom is 68 feet (21 m) long with a 17 ft (5.2 m) wingspan and a 13,500-pound (6,100 kg) maximum take-off weight. Powered by three J85-15 engines with variable geometry inlets and exhaust, the prototype should be able to sustain Mach 2.2 with more than 1,000 nmi (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) of range. [ 4 ]
According to Boom, a jet must reach around 770 mph at sea level to break the sound barrier. The XB-1 serves as the design foundation for Boom’s future jet, a concept model called Overture.
"Boom has said it would cost up to $8 billion to build its supersonic plane, and that's a low number," Tie said. "The company has only publicly funded less than $1 billion. It's a long road, and I ...
Boom Supersonic wants to bring Mach 1.7 air travel to the masses by the 2030s. ... “This is needed to amortize the huge ownership cost per seat of the type,” he says. ... Boom’s aircraft ...
The TsAGI exhibited at the 2017 MAKS Air Show in Moscow a scale model of its Supersonic Business Jet / Commercial Jet which should produce a low sonic boom permitting supersonic flight over land, optimised for 2,100 km/h (1,300 mph) cruise and 7,400–8,600 km (4,600–5,300 mi) range.
Many companies are working on bringing back supersonic flights, but one of them named Boom also wants to make low fares part of the deal.