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American Airlines and Boom Supersonic announced the airline's agreement to purchase up to 20 aircraft overture, with option to 40 additional.
American paid a non-refundable deposit for the 20 initial planes. Overture is expected to transport passengers at twice the speed of today's fastest commercial aircraft.
The new supersonic planes
Boom Supersonic's Overture would introduce a significant new speed advantage to the American fleet., which is currently the simplest, young and efficient among the network operators of USA. Under the terms of the agreement, Boom must meet operational requirements, industry standard performance and safety, as well as other customary conditions of American prior to delivery of any Overture.
"Looking to the future, supersonic travel will be an important part of our ability to deliver to our customers”, said Derek Kerr, CFO of American. “We are excited about how Boom will shape the future of travel for both our company and our customers”.
Overture is designed to transport 65 a 80 passengers to Mach 1,7 over the water, or twice the speed of today's fastest commercial aircraft, with a range of 4250 nautical miles. Optimized for speed, safety and sustainability, Overture is also designed to fly in more than 600 routes around the world in just half the time. Flying from Miami to London in just under five hours and from Los Angeles to Honolulu in three hours are some of the many possibilities.
“We are proud to share our vision of a more connected and sustainable world with American Airlines”, Blake Scholl said, founder and CEO of Boom. “We believe Overture can help American deepen its competitive advantage on the web., loyalty and overall airline preference through the paradigm-shifting benefits of cutting travel times in half”.
In July, Boom revealed the final production design for Overture, which is scheduled to launch in 2025 and transport its first passengers to 2029.
There are still several challenges ahead for the manufacturer and operators, that will require a great participation of the regulatory entities to be able to achieve supersonic flights in the vicinity of populated areas, main challenge that also influenced the end of the legendary Concorde.
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The challenge is also to be economically profitable. A ticket on this type of aircraft must be very expensive
JIMMY
Good point, but remember that this plane will have new technologies, not like the Concorde that swallowed fuel.
Certainly a new generation of supersonic jets. Anyway, they are still four-engines like the Concorde, Tupolev 144 and today with the Boom company several airlines are betting on these more affordable trips to everyone's pocket.
The current trend is twin-engines and I know that there are still technical limitations and therefore it is still necessary to reach supersonic Mach speeds 1 or more all four engines. There will surely be a jet with these characteristics in the future (beyond 2040) a supersonic twin engine.
maybe before that time. There is a lot of money being invested.