Boom *

Perhaps the biggest star of Farnborough was an aircraft that was not there at all, Boom, son of Concorde.

The aim is for the first Boom assembly to begin this year, the rollout to start by 2025, and passenger flights to start by 2029.  The company said that 70 orders have already been placed.

It is expected that this could cut travel time in half, with New York to London flights taking 3hrs 15mins, Tokyo to Seattle 4hrs 30mins.  Called ‘Overture’ the key features of the newly revealed design include a four-engine layout that will allow the aircraft to cruise at speeds of Mach 1.7 over water with a range of 4,250 nautical miles.  It will use the world’s first automated noise reduction system for take-off. This means that the airliner will fly without afterburners in order to meet regulatory requirements.

Boom announced at the show a new partnering agreement with Northrop Grumman to develop special mission variants of the aircraft. Carrying 65–80 passengers at twice the speed of today’s airliners and running on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
 
The company said that to date it had culminated 26m core-hours of simulated software designs, five wind tunnel tests, and the careful evaluation of 51 full design iterations, resulting in an economically and environmentally sustainable supersonic airliner.

“Aviation has not seen a giant leap in decades. Overture is revolutionary in its design, and it will fundamentally change how we think about distance”, said Blake Scholl, Founder and CEO, Boom. “With more than 600 routes across the globe, Overture will make the world dramatically more accessible for tens of millions of passengers”.

https://boomsupersonic.com

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