World’s fastest airliner ‘Overture’
to usher in new era of supersonic travel
Fox Weather,
by
Steve Yablonski
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/15/2022 7:02:26 AM
The world hasn’t seen commercial supersonic travel in nearly 20 years since the Concorde was retired in 2003, but all that is about to change with the development of a new, environmentally friendly airliner.
Meet Overture – the world’s fastest airliner that was developed by Denver-based Boom Supersonic.
With 26 million hours of designing and testing, Overture will run on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) as it flies at Mach 1.7 over the ocean, shuttling between 68-80 passengers up to nearly 5,000 miles.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
privateer 8/15/2022 7:15:08 AM (No. 1248442)
Sustainable fuel? Why isn't it electric?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bad-hair 8/15/2022 7:22:13 AM (No. 1248452)
60 to 80 passengers NYC to London. Worked real well for the Concorde. Pretty pictures though.
8 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
rellimpank2 8/15/2022 8:09:21 AM (No. 1248502)
'The fuel comprises different types of sustainable resources, such as used cooking oil and animal fat waste, to name a few.'
--yeah,sure--(sarc)
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 8/15/2022 8:11:12 AM (No. 1248503)
26 million hours? I call BS on that. That works out to almost 3000 years.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/15/2022 8:12:17 AM (No. 1248504)
Manned by affirmative action pilots and the same nasty ground personnel and flight attendants providing you with their current idea of service.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 8/15/2022 8:15:58 AM (No. 1248511)
Powered by Mazola!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 8/15/2022 8:22:03 AM (No. 1248515)
Sustainable fluid requires as much or more carbon to produce than the engines would use during a flight. I almost spit when I laughed about recycled cooking oil and waste animal fat. Aren’t current cooking oils being obtained from grains, which require, REQUIRE nitrogen fertilizers to sustain their production at the volume necessary to fuel communist utopian dreams? Aren’t animal farts at least 30% of the problem with methane, another dastardly world-greening gas?
I shake my head at the foolishness. On the bright side, these engineers had to think outside of the box to realize the efficiencies that allow this aircraft to fly supersonic without fuel-gulping afterburners. Now, if they will only apply common sense to their fuel selection, then this is a winner concept… for the wealthy.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 8/15/2022 8:26:35 AM (No. 1248518)
I'd love to pilot that bad girl. Now all we need to do is build one that runs on Covid and Monkey Pox vaccines.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 8/15/2022 8:31:32 AM (No. 1248524)
Another Solyndra. Prepare to fork over billions in tax revenues, then watch as it evaporates. Or rather, disappears into the pockets of the frauds pushing this scam.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Hugh Akston 8/15/2022 8:35:31 AM (No. 1248529)
I'll have a front row seat when they start flight tests. Being manufactured on site at Piedmont Triad Airport - GSO - and the circular touch-and-go flights will take it right over me. I get military touch-and-and goes all the time including AF1. My parents are only 1.5 mi from the runways and they will be on final approach at low altitude. Will be able to tell what color eyes the pilots have.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
joew9 8/15/2022 8:51:42 AM (No. 1248552)
Forget the speed. Just make the seats bigger. The seats in first class today are the size of the seats in economy class back in the 1980s.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
NamVet70 8/15/2022 8:57:31 AM (No. 1248561)
This is really a great idea! I am pretty certain it will be a success because it is based on letting the wealthy (but not super wealthy) can virtue signal that they fly on a "sustainable" fueled plane and simultaneously brag that they fly supersonic. It is targeted at the elitist wannabe class.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/15/2022 9:08:53 AM (No. 1248573)
I remember following a car many years ago, and commented to the missus, that I smelled french fries. Turns out the car had been converted to run on used cooking oil. So now we can expect the whole world to smell like a burger joint? The only good thing I see, is they'll need the corn they're contaminating our gas with, to make their cooking oil fuel.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 8/15/2022 9:16:42 AM (No. 1248584)
After each flight they will drain off excess sustainable fuel the plane generated during the flight. They will make the plane's carbon composite structure from carbon made from burning recycled cardboard. Why are the elite in such a hurry to get somewhere?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Trump Won 8/15/2022 9:23:22 AM (No. 1248597)
Prototype? Flight testing? Certificate of Airworthiness? Build time and delivery dates? Nothing said about specifics.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 8/15/2022 9:29:27 AM (No. 1248605)
Only for the billionaires. Serfs not permitted.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
red1066 8/15/2022 9:37:23 AM (No. 1248618)
Once again, these ideas run into economics. Flying seventy to eighty passengers isn't going to make it financially feasible to operate. We've already been down this path before. People aren't looking for a three-thousand-dollar air fare to get from point a to point b because as we all know, anything with the word sustainable in it costs more money. Why not just put the flex capacitor on the plane and have bananas as the in-flight snack.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 8/15/2022 9:46:47 AM (No. 1248629)
Re #19, see #18.
In the coming Great Reset, economics won't matter any more, doncha see?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
hisself 8/15/2022 9:52:29 AM (No. 1248639)
The only sustainable fuel is made from unicorn farts! All the rest is just a scam.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Hugh Akston 8/15/2022 10:03:09 AM (No. 1248659)
Ten things to know about Boom Supersonic -
https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/what-is-boom-supersonic-fun-facts-about-jet-maker-coming-to-greensboro/83-edbfd40e-b932-44d6-870e-bf1a8b4094e7
Boom will break ground on the facility later in 2022. Production will start in 2024.
The first Overture aircraft will be unveiled in 2025, fly in 2026, and carry its first passengers by 2029.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 8/15/2022 10:24:24 AM (No. 1248686)
#12 is correct. Flying coach for more than 30 minutes is misery and I am only 5’ 8” and 175 lbs. in fact, flying commercial these days is pretty much all around misery. I am glad I am retired and no longer have to fly anywhere.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/15/2022 10:33:25 AM (No. 1248701)
Going Nowhere Faster...what a joke!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 8/15/2022 10:42:35 AM (No. 1248729)
Yeah, right. Unlikely to ever be built.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 8/15/2022 11:00:09 AM (No. 1248767)
Trolling for suckers (investors)
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
JimBob 8/15/2022 12:29:08 PM (No. 1248828)
Can they build it? Will it work?
Who knows?
But I have to say...... the pictures on their website are pretty..... reminds me of a much-refined Convair B-58 Hustler from the 1950's.
(I built a plastic model of one when I was a kid.)
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
DVC 8/15/2022 12:45:12 PM (No. 1248841)
RE #22, A relative who is a test pilot flew the early technology demonstrator of the Boom tech aircraft concept. Quite a few years ago.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Luandir 8/15/2022 3:24:05 PM (No. 1248967)
But it does nothing for the ordeal of getting to and from the gate.
And that soundtrack "jingle" is not likely to appeal to their elite customer base.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 8/15/2022 7:53:36 PM (No. 1249165)
Absolutely right #9 - another fantasy hole to pour money, we don't have, into !
The Concorde was NEVER profitable in it's operational life. It was a long lived
nationalistic PR campaign, nothing more. 'Overture' is just another trip down that lane !
The operational costs will be prohibitive without, wait for it' SUBSIDIES, aka
TAXPAYER DOLLARS !
Just another carnival come on.
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