SUPER SONIC!

This thread was a little disappointing...

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Boom, which is working with Rolls-Royce, the British jet engine maker, said its plane would be more efficient than the Concorde; United estimates it will be 75 percent more efficient. Boom’s planes will not be as noisy as the Concorde because their engines will create a sonic boom only when flying over water “when there’s no one to hear it,” said Boom’s chief executive, Blake Scholl, who previously worked at Amazon and Groupon.

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So, the same problem the Concorde had. Still not allowed to make loud noise over land, limiting the routes that can be supersonic and efficient, assuming this thing is optimized for high speed cruise.

And the reporter is obviously not an aviation expert. Nor is the CEO.

Good luck with this.
 
Flyinthrew said:
Wikipedia says the Overture has 55 seats. I wonder which United Express partner is going to get them. I’m going with Skywest.
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You don't think your ex-military fighter friends will try to keep this at mainline? Can't have a 1500 hour civilian guy getting into the supersonic flying, that's for the eleeeet pilots.

Or so I was told once by a Navy commander who was talking to a room of IFS students years ago.

But this thing would have some issues with scope between mainline and regionals, if it's 55 seats, right?
 
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Airlines | Boom Supersonic

Large and growing demand for supersonic travel. With commitments from American Airlines, United Airlines, and Japan Airlines.
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PASSENGER CAPACITY
65 to 88
CRUISING ALTITUDE
60,000 FT
CARBON
NET-ZERO
LENGTH
205 FT
SPEED
MACH 1.7
RANGE
4250 NM (4888 MI)



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So there's no 1/3rd scale model, I hear.... And this is supposed to take flight in 3 years?

Netjets company that was eyeing supersonic just announced it had no money. Feels like this is a very United thing to do on par with their VTOL announcement. Let's see if it ever comes to fruition.
 
I'm pretty sure maybe 3 years ago JAL announced they would be the launch customer on NRT-SFO, which is what UA seems to be planning. It is worth noting that at one point, both the Boeing SST and Concorde had 20+ airlines with orders on the books for each...one was scrapped, one was regulated to 2 national carriers (though leased to Singapore and Braniff). So...we'll see...
 
Beefy McGee said:
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Boom, which is working with Rolls-Royce, the British jet engine maker, said its plane would be more efficient than the Concorde; United estimates it will be 75 percent more efficient. Boom’s planes will not be as noisy as the Concorde because their engines will create a sonic boom only when flying over water “when there’s no one to hear it,” said Boom’s chief executive, Blake Scholl, who previously worked at Amazon and Groupon.

"

So, the same problem the Concorde had. Still not allowed to make loud noise over land, limiting the routes that can be supersonic and efficient, assuming this thing is optimized for high speed cruise.

And the reporter is obviously not an aviation expert. Nor is the CEO.

Good luck with this.
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And they haven't even flown their small scale prototype yet, which looks like a fighter jet. Never gonna happen.
 
Beefy McGee said:
You don't think your ex-military fighter friends will try to keep this at mainline? Can't have a 1500 hour civilian guy getting into the supersonic flying, that's for the eleeeet pilots.

Or so I was told once by a Navy commander who was talking to a room of IFS students years ago.

But this thing would have some issues with scope between mainline and regionals, if it's 55 seats, right?
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I find this humorous since every Navy fighter pilot I know has the same story about going Mach 1.whatever.... clean jet Post MX run.


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