Boom supersonic

[FlyChicaga]

Little X-59 side note. My daughter met Nils Larson (test pilot on the X-59) at Oshkosh in 2022 and got a picture with him. It was her first "astronaut" she met, in the NASA tent. Fast forward to last summer, we bumped into Nils at another booth. You would have thought my daughter saw Taylor Swift. She was so excited to get another picture with him. He gave me his phone and asked if I could take a picture of them together since he wanted to remember it. We all were so floored by the experience. Fast forward to a week or two after Oshkosh... my wife reached out to Nils on LinkedIn and told him how my daughter was just head over heels excited to see him again and get another picture. He got our address, and a few weeks later, a massive care package came from NASA Armstrong Research Center with stickers, patches, keychains, pamphlets, you name it. Included were two personalized letters from Nils to both my daughters. Nils signed the X-59 "remove before flight" keychains he sent, which my daughter has on her backpack (I may have stole one too......).

Long story short, I am following the X-59 and Boom Supersonic projects pretty closely now. I am super excited for both and share updates with my daughter all the time. I haven't had time to watch the full stream of the Boom Supersonic mach run, but I do have it saved to watch later. Even though we have had some tragedy lately in aviation, there is still a lot to be excited about. I'm really happy to share this excitement with my daughters... I wonder someday how these life experiences will shape them.

 

[///AMG]

I'm really trying to be excited about this, but it's hard when they describe as a "historical moment" something that a civilian airliner did every day back in the 70s.

......and 80s, and 90s, and some of 2000, 2002 and 2003

 

[derg]

This reminds me of one of those companies that fires up to do one thing, and morphs, after sequential bust cycles, regulatory denials and court losses, into something complete different.

Sort of like a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fan film. Looks kind of the same, and in some ways better than the original, but even the original was a re-dubbed, re-purposed footage from something else, so the whole comparison gets super blurry.

POINTS!