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In January 2022, Boom began conducting engine run-ups using the XB-1 in preparation for taxi tests and the first flight later in 2022. [21] In May 2022, fixed-position ground testing was completed, with engine run-up done on all three engines. Undercarriage and flight systems were tested and deemed ready.
In January 2019, Boom raised a further $100 million, bringing the total to $151 million, then planning the demonstrator first flight for later in 2019. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In January 2022, the company announced plans to build a 400,000-square-foot (37,000 m 2 ) manufacturing facility on a 65-acre (260,000 m 2 ) site at Piedmont Triad International ...
The Boom factory will be sized to assemble up to 100 aircraft per year for a 1,000- to 2,000-aircraft potential market over 10 years. [7] Boom plans to target $5,000 fares for a New York-to-London round-trip, while the same flight on the Concorde cost $20,000 adjusted for inflation; it was its only profitable route. [8]
The aircraft, flown by Boom’s chief test pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, accelerated to Mach 1.1 for the first time (around 844 miles per hour / 1,358 kilometers per hour) — 10% ...
Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight.. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft climbed ...
XB-1 achieved Mach 0.95 during its most-recent test flight on Jan. 10, according to Boom Supersonic. Boom founder and CEO Blake Scholl poses by a model of the XB-1 on July 23, 2024 in Farnborough ...
The Boom XB-1 Baby Boom third-scale testbed, first test flown on on March 22, 2024, the aircraft is powered by three General Electric J-85-15 turbojets. [57] On January 28, 2025, the aircraft reached speeds of Mach 1.122, making it the first human-piloted civil supersonic flight in an aircraft using an air-breathing engine since Concorde’s ...
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