United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic

Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by FireBeyond on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:58AM (#27383286)

> They claim improvements in fuel efficiency and their unique selling point (apart from the speed advantage) is the use of "green" fuels (whatever that implies). Also, see previous point: they don't want to be mainstream anyway.

That seems a logistical issue to me. Airport fueling services have Jet A/A1. So airlines buying Boom will have to arrange contracts to supply these "green" fuels at service destinations?

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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by fancy_pantser on Thursday June 03, 2021 @01:41PM (#27384778)

They've been using Prometheus Fuels (a YC-backed company with further investment from US DOE and BMW i Ventures) thus far, starting with a 2019 deal. It will probably be up to United as to how they fuel the aircraft once in service, but they are basically touting that it is using a carbon-neutral fuel source all through R&D and Prometheus is using Boom to show that it can produce A1 (or possibly JP-8 with additives) in some new ways starting with ethanol and renewable energy sources.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/06/18/187048...

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2020/09/20200916-prometheus...

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