Boom Aerospace Company Wants To Bring Back Supersonic Civilian Travel (bloomberg.com)

pacopico writes: A startup out of Denver called Boom Technology has just come out of stealth mode [by] talking-up their supersonic jet. It would carry 40 passengers and travel at Mach 2.2. The company claims that it's about 30 percent more fuel-efficient than the Concorde. Based on this, it could get its prices down to the equivalent of a business class seat on long-haul flights. At Mach 2.2, a trip from New York to London would take 3.4 hours. Boom is meant to start test flights next year out of John Denver's old hangar.

Comments

Re:30%?

[Kartu]

If it wasn't difficult Concorde would not have been the only successful supersonic passenger plane.
Soviet Tu - 144 crashed at Le Burget avia show (and was built mostly out of fear that it could have military uses... actually it did).
US Boeing 2707 never took off.

The only company extensively using new materials at the moment is Boeing (in its Dreamliner).

PS
And, frankly, flying supersonic plane built by a startup? No thanks.

Re:This sounds great

[iserlohn]

Actually, AF and BA raised the ticket prices after they bough the planes from the government for peanuts and made loads of profit operationally. The R&D and initial build costs for the plane was burdened on the UK and French taxpayers though.