Historical framework on the Californian desert. Boom reached 1,358 km/he promises to reach 2,335 km/h with 55 passengers in the upcoming Overture supersonic. Great large airlines want it and have already ordered.
History was made in commercial aviation this Tuesday. The prototype of XB-1of the ‘young’ Boom Supersonicit became the first private initiative plane flying faster than sound.
Reaching speeds of Mach 1,122 (some impressive 1,358 kilometers per hour) About the California desert, the 19-meter XB-1 exceeded the sound barrier three times, before returning safely to Mojave’s air and spatial port.
History in the making. On Jan. 28, 2025, XB-1 officially broke the sound barrier.
Flying Mach 1.122 (652 KTAS) at 35,290 ft. over the Mojave Desert, Boom’s supersonic demonstrator jet ushered in a new era of supersonic flight.
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Supersonic feat was hit with the former US Navy aviator, Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburgno pilot place.
“A small group of talented and dedicated engineers got what previously required governments and thousands of millions of dollars,” at X, Blake Schollthe founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, created in 2014 with one goal in mind: bring back the commercial supersonic trips.
Tuesday’s test flight was the result of 11 successful flights made since March last year and validated key technologies such as carbon fiber composites, digital stability control and supersonic air entrances, explains the senior space editor on .
Trampoline for (even faster) Overture
Despite the record, the XB-1 is presented by the company as a demonstrator, with only one third of the size of its next supersonic plane, the Overture.
Designed to fly the Mach 1.7 with a maximum speed of Mach 2.2, Overture will reach 2,335 km/he will be able to accommodate 55 passengersa speed that would allow you to make New York-London in 3 hours and 15 minutes, less 3 hours and 45 minutes than a flight in a aircraft where we currently fly. But the tickets would be expensive: about 2,400 euros per tripaccording to project promoters.
The company plans to equip Overture with its own propulsion system, Symphony, developed in collaboration with Florida Turbine Technologies, GE Additive and Standardero.
The focus of BoomSonic is even in large -scale production of Overture, evaluating by mega with its name that has already built in Greensboro, North Carolina, and that will produce until 66 aircraft per year.
The plan is that Overture is in operation even before the end of the decade, transporting 64 to 80 passengers to Mach 1,7 – twice the speed of current subsonic aircraft.
The future of fast travel (and a dark past)
Interest in ultra -ripped trips is increasingly strong, and the Boom will have already secured 130 orders and pre-orders of the large airlines Overture, including American Airlines, United Airlines and Japan Airlines.
Boom is one of many companies that are, with better materials and more advanced aerodynamics, trying to ‘resurrect’ supersonic trips. Tuesday’s feat puts it at the forefront in the succession of the famous ConcordeBritish-French supersonic who made routes between New York and London or Paris, and whose failure after a tragic accident It led to the abandonment of investment on fast trips.
In July 2000, an Air France Concorde drew himself shortly after taking off, killing the 109 passengers on board and still four people on land. It could reach larger speeds than those hit this Tuesday by boom: it went to Mach 2 fence (2.179 km/h) and carried about 100 passengers.
Maintenance problems, high operating costs and the impact of September 11 attacks on air travel led British Airways and Air France to ‘reform’ the Concorde in 2003.
But “we can only live in the future if we have the courage to build it,” said Boom Supersonic CEO. “This jet really has many of the technologies that will allow us to advance and build a commercial supersonic plane available for the masses,” he stressed as he saw XB-1 in the air.
Boom expects to start deliveries before the end of the decade, when we can already dream louder by a new era of high -speed commercial air travel.
Tomás Guimarães, Zap //
