News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic. Parent comment

Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by toomuchtodo on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:10AM (#27382501)
If Boom succeeds, we'll get less expensive supersonic travel (that is going to compete against something ballistic like Starship). If Boom fails, someone will buy the tech and still use the jigs, tooling, and IP for something in the aerospace domain (hopefully). Either way, Boom folks get to work on something they enjoy and is meaningful to them (hopefully), and we all get any benefit (hopefully) from their time grinding on aerodynamics, fluid dynamics, and material science problems.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by tiborsaas on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:40AM (#27383000)
If Boom fails, it will be a glorious day for tech journalists to write the punniest headline.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by wussboy on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:49AM (#27383158)
I admire your restraint.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by fnord77 on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:15AM (#27382565)
did anyone buy the jigs, tooling, etc. for the concorde?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by bentsku on Thursday June 03, 2021 @12:03PM (#27383368)
Airbus used the new tech for their next generations of plane I believe. I guess the fly-by-wire has been used for the A320 soon after. ABS brakes, a more resistant steel alloy, there is this list in French for some of the innovation made for the Concorde and used elsewhere afterward.

http://www.club-concorde.org/ssc/ret_tech-fr.htm

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by toomuchtodo on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:18AM (#27382620)
Different times. Communications and financing are a different beast today. One can reach out to folks they'd never have interacted with in the old days (Twitter, for example). Someone with experience could put together 7 digit financing in a few days, 8 digit financing in weeks, maybe more.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by shakezula on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:33AM (#27382895)
This is one of the most interesting features (or bugs, depending who you ask) about the current time we live in. We can organize massive funding and technological efforts like this over morning coffee and Twitter banter.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by dehrmann on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:21AM (#27382659)
I think Airbus owned them outright.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by cedilla on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:45AM (#27383089)
Airbus pledged to supply to tools and spare parts for Concorde until the late 2000s, so yes.

(Of course they stopped supplying them in 2003 when the service was retired after the crash).

[ Parent | on HN ]