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Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl recently declared “it’s time for a renaissance in energy and in supersonic flight” as the supersonic airliner company unveiled a Colorado factory dedicated to making gas turbines for AI data centers.
We are the future of supersonic flight! As soon as we do the AI thing!
The X-39 is the non-bullshit version of this line of research.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_X-59_Quesst
The long nose is meant to heavily mitigate the decibels of sonic booms from crossing the sound barrier.
yes this is not what they’re doing and it places severe limitations on speed and on conditions when they can fly at all over mach 1
@fullsquare Note that the restriction on flying over Mach 1 is over the USA only: over ocean it’s not restricted, it may be okay over Siberia and Canada (north of the heavily populated bits), etc.
There’s a local minimum for drag around Mach 1.5 so that might be a better target speed for long haul.
But really, we have in-flight wifi via satellite broadband now. And a couple of hours gained by flying faster won’t offset the several hours lost due to security theatre on the ground.