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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 ]
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.
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]
In March 2016, Boom Technology revealed that it is in the development phases of building a 40-passenger supersonic jet capable of flying Mach 1.7, claiming that the design simulation shows that it will be quieter and 30% more efficient than the Concorde and will be able to fly Los Angeles to Sydney in 6 hours. It is planned to go into service ...
Boom’s engine is called Symphony, and it’s designed in collaboration with Florida Turbine Technologies, whose engineers have worked on the supersonic engines of fighter jets such as the ...
A demonstrator aircraft for Boom Supersonic’s new passenger jet took to the skies this month. CEO Blake Scholl says we’ll all be flying supersonic in the future.