The two organizations have entered into a strategic partnership towards developing the company's supersonic passenger airliner, Overture.
when it announced that United is planning to buy 15 of their supersonic planes, and could purchase as many as 50 of them in total.This new Air Force funding, which comes via a “strategic partnership” between the two organizations, will help Boom “accelerate critical design and development initiatives on Overture, including wind tunnel testing and propulsion system definition,” the company said today.
“You keep iterating,” Scholl said, comparing the planes to electric cars. “We kept working on them, and the price came down; they got better and better, and so we’re going to do the same thing with supersonic jets—we’re going to keep working on them, we’re going to keep innovating.” Boom’s XB-1 is supposed to fly this year for the first time, and so is another supersonic aircraft. That’s the X-59 QueSST from NASA and Lockheed Martin, which has a very specific goal: to try to smash through the sound barrier, but without the “boom” that gives Boom Supersonic its name. TheCheck out a promo video for Boom’s Overture aircraft, below:Rob Verger is the Technology Editor at Popular Science. He covers aviation, the military, transportation, security, and other complex tech topics.
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