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2022-08-17 Science & Technology

Miami to London in FIVE HOURS? American Airlines commits to buying 20 Boom Supersonic Overture jets that will fly at twice the speed of a 747 and carry up to 80 passengers

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 What if neither place is worth getting to that fast?

Posted by Dron66046 2022-08-17 04:10|| 2022-08-17 04:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Boom Overture

No engines available as of yet.

Smells like vaporware to me!

As far as I can tell, it's a paper airplane at this point.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-08-17 04:54|| 2022-08-17 04:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Able to use runaways of 10 miles or more

Posted by Frank G 2022-08-17 06:59|| 2022-08-17 06:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Isn't it funny how airlines, which we are always told are teetering on the edge of insolvency, can afford to buy into this?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-17 07:39|| 2022-08-17 07:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Funny also is that they believe that there is a big enough market to sustain the costs of so many airframes.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-17 07:48|| 2022-08-17 07:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Good news is, your luggage will still take 8 hours and end up in Vienna. If you’re lucky.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2022-08-17 08:19|| 2022-08-17 08:19|| Front Page Top

#7
#4 Isn't it funny how airlines, which we are always told are teetering on the edge of insolvency, can afford to buy into this?
Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-17 07:39

Keep in mind that every time a 'revolutionary' aircraft has come out in the last 75 years, the airlines have jumped on it, only to cancel out later. For instance, PanAm ordered a fairly substantial number of DeHavilland Comets, only to cancel (along with a lot of other airlines) when the Comet's fatal design flaw revealed itself. A bunch of airlines ordered BAC Concordes, but as the costs of the plane (and mandated performance restrictions) became clear they backed out.

And in both of those examples, it can be argued that none of those airlines ever had any intention of taking delivery of a single airframe. In the case of the Comet, PanAm wanted to nudge US manufacturers towards a US built jet - Boeing got the hint and started development of the 707. The Concorde orders were used by other airlines to try and bludgeon the US into subsidizing a US-built SST, but we know how that turned out.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-08-17 08:32|| 2022-08-17 08:32|| Front Page Top

#8 The Overture jet, being designed to run 100 percent on sustainable aviation fuel or a blend

Oh, runs on Pegasus Farts. Splendid.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-08-17 10:36|| 2022-08-17 10:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Somehow, the idea of choosing to ride on a new supersonic jet named BOOM just seems inviting an ironic finish to my travelling days.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-08-17 13:04|| 2022-08-17 13:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Inspired by #6 USN Ret:

Two elephants, Harry and Kay,
Liked to kiss, but their trunks got in the way.
So they hopped on a plane,
They're now kissing in Maine,
Their trunks both got shipped to LA.

Posted by Tom 2022-08-17 14:31|| 2022-08-17 14:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Ha ha! Trunks! Oh!

[clapitty clap clap]

Posted by Dron66046 2022-08-17 15:27|| 2022-08-17 15:27|| Front Page Top

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