Do you remember the days of the Concorde aircraft, a revolutionary plane that transported people from New York to Europe and vice versa in a time that averaged around 3 hours and 30 minutes?
While the Concorde might have been taken out of service in the early 2000s, there’s a new supersonic aircraft currently in development that could bring back the days of super-fast flights.
Boom Supersonic, a startup company in Denver, Colorado in the United States, is currently working towards a passenger supersonic jet which could become the first commercial aircraft of this type in nearly 20 years.
The company’s final project, known as the Boom Overture, is currently on pace to be rolled out between 2025 and 2027. This plane model is set to hold a capacity of 55 passengers and would reach a maximum velocity of Mach 2.2, or 1430 miles per hour.
The company claims that flights from New York to London would be made in around 3 hours and 15 minutes, while a route from Miami to Santiago, Chile would take 3 hours and 50 minutes. The plane’s fuel capacity would not allow for direct transpacific flights, but with a stop, the long journey between the US’s West Coast and Japan could take around 7 hours.
The program is currently on track to release the Boom XB-1, a small “mini” aircraft which would serve as a stepping stone to the release and development of the Overture, in early 2021. It might seem crazy, but the days of super high-speed flying are on the brink of returning.
