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Boom Supersonic's Overture aims to revive fast air travel with Mach 1.7 speed, sustainable tech, and major airline backing.
Will passengers ever break the sound barrier again? - Exclusive: Zoom may make life difficult for Boom, the most serious ...
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said in an interview that the United States is still ahead of China when it comes to sueprsonic jet aircraft. NASA / SWNS Scholl’s company, Boom Supersonic, is ...
The first dreams of supersonic air travel were crushed by annoyed Oklahoma City residents in the 1960s. Decades later, it could now be viable.
Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake Scholl poses with a model of the XB-1, the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet aircraft, during the Farnborough International Airshow 2024 ...
Boom Supersonic is not just developing an airplane but also an engine. [Courtesy: Boom Supersonic] One system planned for Overture and successfully tested on XB-1 was landing with synthetic vision.
Boom says that its Overture supersonic passenger jet, which uses much of the XB-1's technology, will profitably carry 64–80 passengers at a cruise speed of Mach 1.7—twice the speed of subsonic ...
The International Civil Aviation Organization, representing 193 countries including the U.S., recently agreed on new global supersonic aircraft noise standards, based in part on Boom’s new ...
In February, Scholl posted a photo on X of Trump posing at the White House with a Boom Supersonic aircraft model. “This administration is supersonic,” he wrote in the caption.
If Boom’s commercial passenger aircraft is approved for supersonic flight over land, a flight across the U.S. — beginning potentially as early as 2029 — could be at least 90 minutes quicker ...