United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic

Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by dharmab on Thursday June 03, 2021 @10:17AM (#27381716)

Boom's aircraft don't make as loud a sonic boom as Concorde. Both NASA and Boom will conduct tests of this design in the mid 2020s to measure the sound at ground level in various conditions.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/features/how-nasa-wil...

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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by nemetroid on Thursday June 03, 2021 @10:37AM (#27382032)

Are you saying NASA/Lockheed Martin's X-59 is related to Boom? Or that Boom have similar goals?

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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by bryanlarsen on Thursday June 03, 2021 @10:43AM (#27382125)

NASA's flight will validate and improve the computer models that Boom is using to design their plans.

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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by nemetroid on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:59AM (#27383312)

Is this a stated plan of Boom's (in particular, with regard to noise), or speculation?

Boom's page on why their aircraft won't have the same fate as the Concorde focuses purely on (fuel and route) economics, not noise [1].

1: https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/post/will-boom-supersonics-...

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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by dharmab on Thursday June 03, 2021 @12:03PM (#27383378)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R43gKMWAPco

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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by nemetroid on Thursday June 03, 2021 @12:13PM (#27383508)

This video doesn't mention sonic booms, nor NASA, at any point.

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