Boom says that your plane will be faster than the Concorde
is Called XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator, but he already has a nickname: the “Baby Boom”. The prototype of the plane supersonic was yesterday presented by the Boom in Technology in Denver, colorado, USA. And the company says that this plane will be able to connect New York to London in three and a half hours.
The prototype XB-1 is smaller than the final version that the startup backed by Virgin Galactic wants to have available in 2020. For now, only has place for one pilot, but the goal is that you can carry 44 passengers, about five thousand euros per ticket.
In the presentation, Blake Scholl, president and founder of the Boom, said that 60 years after we enter the era supersonic is amazing how still we flew at speeds of 60 years of the last century. The Boom says that your plane will be able to fly at a speed of Mach 2.2, 10% faster than the Concorde.
Virgin Galactic, billionaire Richard Branson, is supporting the company in the early stages of research and development and in return has the option to purchase the first 10 aircraft. The first tests are planned for the next year.
Since the Concorde stopped flying in 2003, that there is a commercial airliner supersonic. But the Boom is not the only company that is attempting this feat: Club Concorde, a group composed of former commanders, pilots and fans of aviation, wants to finance the purchase and the return of the Concorde, and the Airbus was registered in the last year the patent of a machine supersonic.
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