XB-1 and Overture are different aircraft, but they also have a lot in common. From high-performing teams to technology and our safety-first culture, explore the connections with Boom XB-1 VP Jeff Mabry.
Been following along on Youtube - love the flight content! Congrats to the team on Mach 0.95!
The connections between XB-1 and Overture highlight the strength of Boom’s high-performing teams, innovative technology, and safety-first culture—a solid foundation for supersonic advancements.
as a config guy for 40 years...it's a beautiful plane
Year's away from any commercial flights the testing of the yet to be built prototype with some tested engines also still to be built. All will take years just like Concorde not forgetting the billions required to fund all of this
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Boom Supersonic - Agreed XB-1 and Overture are different aircraft but you're using the XB-1 to test technologies, airplane designs and methods of flight etc which will be used on Overture. Instead of spending countless millions of $s building an Overture protertype and then having to test everything before she will even taxi or leave the ground, its cheaper to build the XB-1 and do all these things in it and know they work before the same stuff/technology is fitted to Overture. Then after fitting to Overture that technology will be further refined and fine tuned to meet Overture's exact need, that makes sense. Before Concorde was made her droop nose and oval delta wings were tested a smaller jet to make sure they all worked before Concorde got them so what you're doing with XB-1 and Overture are tried and tested methods in airplane design etc.
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2moCongrats on going supersonic today!