Boom Supersonic wants to report supersonic planes in the line sections. Now on the skies of California the company has managed to pass the first test: one of its planes flew at the speed of Mach 1.122, over 10% compared to the speed of sound.
THE’Last flight of Concorde with passenger edge was the October 24, 2003. Used only by Air France and British Airways, the Concorde was a supersonic transport plane that can travel the distance from Paris and New York about 3 hours and 40 minutes. In service from 1976throughout its history, marked only a serious accident, in 2000also due to a debrite fallen on the track in the take -off phase.
Supersonic flights on the line sections have been stopped. Usual formula: costs too high, too low revenues. But now there is a company that promises to bring them back into the air. It’s called Boom Supersonic and now he has just passed a test that could bring it a little closer to his goal. On January 28, one of its vehicle aircraft passed the sound speed.
The demonstration was filmed and broadcast on video by another plane that was following him thanks to one Internet Starlink connection. A detail that obviously was then shared by the same company of Elon Musk also on X: “Boom has become supersonic and we were able to see it live thanks to Starlink”.
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Boom Supersonic project
In the aeronautics we speak of supersonic flight when you can overcome one speed of 1,225 km/h. Boom managed to do to overcome this threshold to its XB-1, the plane from which the company should build its commercial veivolo. The name announced at the moment is Over.
The plane flew among the skies of California and after 12 minutes of flight it reached Mach 1.122about 10% more than the speed of sound. On 10 January XB-1 had arrived as soon as they are this threshold. According to CNN at the moment there would be about 130 orders already booked And at least three interested companies: American Airlines, United Airlines and Japan Airlines.
