Boom Supersonic and Spike Aerospace are looking to revolutionize supersonic flight with new passenger jets to return supersonic air travel.
It has been almost 25 years since Concorde’s last flight and, with it, the dream of supersonic passenger travel. On July 25, 2000, Air France flight 4590 crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people onboard and four on the ground.
Speaking to Interesting Engineering, Blake Scholl, Boom Supersonic’s founder and CEO, said: “We are finally at a point today, post-Concorde, where both the technology and the market exist to make mainstream supersonic flight really practical.” Scholl acknowledged this challenge: “The challenge with sonic boom is a lot more about regulatory than it is about technology. We know how to create sonic booms of a whole spectrum of intensities, but the more we dampen it, the more we give up other things. We give up fuel efficiency, we give up range, we give up affordability of tickets, we give up sustainability.”
“The secret is complicated. A lot of aerodynamics, a lot of physics in it. But what you’re doing is you’re designing the aircraft so that the airstream hitting the plane is dissipated before it reaches the ground.”The market for supersonic travel is bifurcated between business jets and commercial airliners. Spike Aerospace’s Diplomat business jet targets high-net-worth individuals and executives who value time savings for critical face-to-face meetings.
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