The First Look at Boom’s Supersonic Plane
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
- It’s been almost 20 years since the Concorde was retired, putting an end to commercial supersonic flight for the very rich. But out in Colorado, the startup Boom Technology has raised $160 million in its quest to build a replacement, one that should be cheaper, more comfortable and able to fly more routes. Here’s an exclusive first look at Boom’s prototype test plane, the XB-1.
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You have to wonder why they have to do cheapskate, scumbag spam advertising like this ... smh
I have a doubt... Concorde retired because the maintenance costs wre very high and here in XB 1, we have less passenger capacity so the price of tickets must be more than a normal planes. So, how are we supposed to cut down costs to make these planes affordable for majority of public mass?
@@tushitchatterjee8383 we don’t know exactly how yet, but it should be their main goal to fix that
@@TariqHlayel yes, or else they won't have much vast market. They either would have to make a larger passenger capacity or negligible maintenance aircrafts.
1:30
"......with Concorde"
shows Soviet Tupolev Tu-144
Love how technical he is at the end
ya bernoulli
Wow, jets that fly twice as fast, and security that now takes twice as long.
You've never been on a private jet bud they don't stand in lines of security like you do.
Is no one going to point out the fact that this is a plane called BOOM
BOOM!!!
State the obvious?....no
😂😂👍
Al Qaeda: *heavy breathing
Idk if this is a joke and Im getting whooshed or not but the company’s called Boom, the plane’s called overture.
It would be great to see another Supersonic Airliner. I missed out on Concorde.
All I got in the end was some engine blades and some cutlery.
I hope they will succeed
They will. Air japan has already agreed to order some if the xb-1 works. Which it will based on the work they have done. It’s been 60+ hour weeks for everyone at boom for a long time, they are working quite hard. I would know, dads one of the guys putting it together.
@@fakehiker965 During COVID, with general airline traffic collapsing and most airlines almost bankrupt, Air Japan is ordering these ?? I’m highly skeptical !
@@Nicholas.T they put their order in a few years ago.
Jet go boom 💥
@@fakehiker965 Delta just agreed to order 15 with an option to buy a few dozen more if it succeeds.
There were no critical questions from the reporter. What about the aircraft cost; running costs and environmental costs? How is a ten-year timeframe remotely realistic? Current airliner projects take longer than that of designing and building more conventional aircraft. Also, what about increased comfort and the internet for business travelers since the Concord era?
It is Bloomberg. You just need to pay, then the interviewer will ask some friendly questions probably.
i really dislike the windows, they're to large in my opinion and the aisle arm rests look uncomfortable
the video said the BOOM will be more efficient to fly, which would make it cheaper and more environmentally firendly to fly... that is, however, compared to the concord.
10 years until the liner is flying. Probably another five for flight testing and FAA certification.
@@luke557 theres shades
I wish them great success with this project. Very enthusiastic character and entrepreneur.
Blake thinks: "What I really want is a supersonic personal jet; but how can I get the funds to build one?" "I know, we'll make it a proof of concept for a future commercial supersonic jet; I think the venture capital companies will swallow that. I hope they will." "They did!!!!" ;) My serious question is, can this jet remain in a holding pattern? If not, ATC is going to have to change a lot.
1:29 that's Tu-144
"Concordski"
OURcorde
It came out before Concorde
I think this video leaves more questions than it does answers. But it's an interesting project
One of the big reasons concord failed was because people living under its flight path complained about the boom. So they moved its flight path to transcontinental flights and therefore killed its viability to turn a profit. I’m not sure how these guys plan to get around the issue of a sonic boom and noise pollution
I love the sonic boom. Love it BOOM
Exciting! I hope to take a trip on Boom before I make my final exit.
Ending with a boom.
Boom
1:29
*chuckles
"That's not a Concorde"
1:32
"That's a Concorde"
This is incredibly exciting!!! I have a gut feeling that Boom is going to be the future. All the best !
Wow that's a colorful scene. Green and blue walls, pattern strip going around the walls, and Ashlee Vance being the second most orange person I've ever seen. I like it.
OK so key points I am getting from this:-
1. They are calling the project Boom? Presumably a nod to Sonic Boom!*
2. They have almost finished a single seat 1/3rd scale prototype they are calling XP-1? (XT-1?)
3. They hope to be flying commercially within 10 years
3. The plane will have turbo-fan engines rather than turbo-jet making it far more fuel efficient and therefore cheaper to fly [compared with Concord from 20 years ago]
4. The shape is very like Concord with a narrow wingspan because of the need to reduce drag at high speed. At low speed the plane will need a steep, nose up angle in order to create vortex lift .The pilot is presented with a virtual view in front of the plane via nose mounted cameras (thereby avoiding the need to dip the nose during landing as Concord used to).
It all seems great HOWEVER, I wonder if this will every really take off? (Pun intended!) Surely everyone is doing business with virtual communications now? You may be able to fly from A- to B in half the time but you are still going to be stuck in traffic and waiting at the airport for your flight. Compare that with the ability to see as well as hear your colleagues via video conferencing?
Atlantic
* Sonic Boom: Do quieter engines result in a quieter sonic Boom? One of the issues Concord had was that it was not allowed to accelerate to super sonic speed until over the Atlantic ocean. Even then the boom could still be heard along the western coast of the UK (and presumably the eastern coast of the USA when flying from New York to London or Paris) Is it realistic to imagine that you could actually fly a super-sonic commercial aircraft over land (i.e. from east to west USA or vice versa). Currently even with a small military Jets everyone in the UK knows about an urgent response to an air-space incursion over the UK long before your hear about it on the news. The Government cannot hush-hush the sonic boom of a military aircraft, EVERYONE asks "WTF was that?"
I'd be happy if they could just get me through the airport security twice as fast.
Wide body? The photos were narrow bodies. It would take a LOT of fuel to get a wide body fuselage to Mach. That is why Conchord was narrow.
The efficiency of the engines is what I watched this for. If the supersonic plane is one-third the size of a typical jet, and it flies twice as fast, than what is the ratio of fuel consumption to price of a ticket? Is it twice, three times, four times as much as a first-class ticket? Then, what's the relationship of how much more fuel it uses to how much more willing a passenger is willing to pay? Is it twice the cost of a first-class ticket, from New York to London? Three tines?
The company is trying to make the flights more accessible to everyone but they will definitely be expensive.
@@thekub32 Not really they are aimed at the private jet market.
Probably going to be 12,000 a ticket when flying over oceans. EASY
Such a great goal to work towards. Love it.
'Commercial supersonic flight' is a relative term, Concorde was one of the all time loss making enterprises. Projected orders 250, actual sales 14.
Yes, you're correct, but it was designed in the 60-70's slide ruler days. Too heavy and inefficient engines. With composites today and modern jet engines. It just might have a chance an making it. Only one major problem right now...COVID-19
@@rnavstar Yes Covid but also limited fossil fuels and climate change ...
The Concorde's financial woes really came about when country after country wouldn't let if fly over land. This dramatically reduced demand by limiting routes and the amount of customers available.
@@rnavstar You’re actually totally wrong there ! Nothing to do with the Concorde’s engine inefficiencies ( which they were ), but was a result of the unavoidable sonic boom. Because of the sonic boom, they were banned from flying across land in all countries. As a result the only economic route was across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to North America. And the same fate will be be in store for this proposed aircraft. It will have sonic boom ( it is unavoidable) and therefore will only be allowed to fly over limited stretches of ocean.
@@Nicholas.T Sonic booms aren’t much of an issue. Over 1300 trans Atlantic flights take place per day, and a few less trans pacific flights. All of those could fly supersonic.
Dude is totally balling! Who give's a f*ck about athletes as role models when we have people like this....
Who the f has an athlete as a role model?
Wow so so cool, can't wait to see the presentation!
This guy is actually excited about it that counts a lot!
Excitement won't remove the ban on supersonic planes and the high tax on jet fuel, combined with the reduced need for business travel, and the Internet and laptops allowing for working while on a plane making reduced flight time unnecessary.
They are learning lessons from Elon:Set overly optimistic timeframes and budgets to hype up investorts.
If they play their cards well they might have a shot like Spacex did but they’d be walking a very thin line until they get a contract and even then they won’t be out of the woods.
I have some hope for this company,will see.
They aren't revolutionising as much as spacex has with reusable rockets, so extra limiting challenge for Boom
I think that Boom is VERY different than Tesla. Boom is just iterating and right-sizing an aviation technology from the 1960's (Concorde). They seem to have addressed the tech and business deficits of Concorde and are methodically correcting them, and that seems like a realistic goal.
Musk on the other hand, waves around ideas that have only existed in comic books and sci-fi novels, many of which will never materialize. Yet he seems to be able to attract unlimited capital.
@Physics and astronomy Elon is a con man and Tesla's occasional modest profitablity is from selling regulatory credits.
@@paulo7200 hows Elon a con man?
@@yeahx32p69
Ignore him. He's just a typical Elon haters.
I take full exception to the intro that says the Concorde is the most beautiful airplane ever built. I would rank it as the 3rd most beautiful. Number 2... The SR-71 Blackbird. If you've never seen it, go to the National Air and Space Museum at Dulles Airport. It sits front and center and is a sight that is awe-inspiring. Number 1... You probably guessed it already, the XB-70 Valkyrie. OK. I'll admit that numbers 1 and 2 may be interchangeable from a beauty standpoint, but the Concorde is only number 3... so far.
Sorry Concorde is the Nō1 and then there’s fresh air before reaching the Blackbird. I think the XB-70 is kind of ugly at the front and a Concorde rip off at the rear.
@@vlofvl A matter of taste, I suppose. I fully expected someone to get on the side of the Concorde. As far as the tail goes, supersonic aircraft have that sort of tapered shape. It's probably a case of form-follows-function. Even the new BOOM SST has it. As to the XB-70... from a straight on look, I've always thought the paint job makes it look like a duck, but the overall plane is gorgeous.
I could be wrong but I think most people are implying most beautiful passenger jet.
@@anthonymorris5084 I'll give it that.
ah yes! Hyperloop of the sky!
Very innovative..... nice design. Congrats for the amazing designers and vision of your project.
Why does the interviewer always look like he is hungover?
Feel like you're answering your own question
Work pressure
he looks like Hermann Göring
@@ML4000 hahahahaha
and that bored-to-death intro?
Exciting....Bring on the BOOM!
Aerospace engineer here, love this company
It will be interesting to see it fly.
I think defining safety and demanding safe design standards into prototypes and proving safety is what the public air fare consumer really wants.
IMHO in addition to standard flight testing and approval the aircraft should demonstrate both: 1) Water landings / ditching 2) Off airport emergency landing capability.
Place Safety and Rmergency procedures into aircraft design first then add speed.
I thought a more B1 swept body shape would be faster./smoother air flow. Go faster! Love it.
Was 55 Passengers now 88 Passengers with Delt. Dreams only dreams with 150 staff and no flight with a single jet design yet, Sadly will never be
All the best Boom!
I want the Saturn-V he has in the background!
My 8 year old built that. Took some time.
Lego Saturn v. $99 when I got it. A ton of fun to build
In the first shots of the hangar, in the background, is a small, low-winged light green plane with a two-bladed prop; looks to me like it could be a Globe/Temco Swift.; If so, they've got at least one real pilot, with big steel ones, that plane will do almost anything you ask it, but you have to ask nicely.
@@AshleeVanceHelloWorld great work as always thanks
Stunning looking plane
Questions:
Using JP8? The toxic crap spewed from engines running that fuel is a planet-killer
What about the sonic booms? Are the "little people" just supposed to get used to them?
Why not use electro-gravitic tech instead of century-old antique science?
"Why not use electro-gravitic tech instead of century-old antique science?" Why not teleportation?
A) sonic boom reduction is kind of Boom’s whole business model
B) “electro-gravitric tech?” What are you smoking?
Excellent !!
That "assembly hangar" is an OSHA inspector's wet dream.
wow, a supersonic civil airplane !!!..we back to 70's.
Stunning
without a solution to lifting the ban of supersonic flights over land, this company will end up with the same fate as the concorde.
Congress removed the ban couple years ago
To fly internationally you need more than the US Congress involved ...........
I was surprised to learn that BOOM had $6 billion in pre-orders prior to the Scam-demic. The plane is for over-ocean routes such as NY- London, etc.
@@SunriseLAW ny to LDN is over land tho how do you get to London without flying over Ireland, wales and south west England 🤔
@@jamesmason131 seriously? 1. the plane flies subsonic over land (duhhhhh) or 2. fly a 'great circle' route 200 miles south of the current one.
Very cool. ✈️
I heard the problem with supersonic jets is that airlines just don't care about the niche. It will cost more to fly, and customers are simply unwilling to pay higher prices to get somewhere faster, especially now with in-flight WiFi and lie-flat seats, the travelers that are willing to spend the money don't need to.
Yes ! We need the Concorde back guys !
There will again be Noise Complaints and this would be cancelling soon
Yeah. How'd that work out ?
Yeah but the yanks would get jealous and complain about it again.
This is very exciting.
thank you for video
Is the pilot seat an ejection seat? Flight test seems like it could be risky enough that they would need an ejection seat.
What about autonomous flight control? Are the XB-1 or Overture going to be capable of autonomous flight?
this was probably broadcast live, hence the low quality. it'd been nice to post a higher post a higher quality version of the tour / hardware.
This is what America great - ingenuity, innovation and bold thinking. From the Wright Brothers to Boom Technology.
... "From the Wright Brothers to Boom Technology." That didn't come out right 🤭 I hope they reconsider the name
Hello World has always had the best Motion Graphics.
“In a cosmic sort of way yes”
- Sheldon J Plankton
There from COLORADO!? Let’s go!!
So anyone else hear the person eating from a bowl while the guy from Boom was talking during the interview? Maybe im old school but i thought eating during an interview was a no no.
The Boom has windows like the Vickers Viscount.
I can't wait to see this 👌
@bloomberg Originals, any follow up planned for why the XB-1 isn't flying and Boom isn't talking about it?
You would think that with all the amazing new physics knowledge that is being taught at univerisites and the amazing simulation software they could manufacture the airplane much sooner than the team at Concorde or Tupolev. By looking at the time charts, they're as fast as were the designers back then with a pencil, ruler and paper (pocket calculators were also not a thing back then) while not being all that amazingly better. The design of overture is becomming more and more like the concorde itself. The engineers back then knew what they were doing it seems.
The Concorde took about 16 years, $400 million in funding, and serious help from 3 different governments.
There's alot more safety, automation and bureaucratic requirement today then there was back then.
So no words on what actually made the Concorde fail: fuel cost. In an era where ecology is more & more important and governments (ie: France) are starting to tax the hell out of jet fuel. Yeah no, that's probably not going to go far and certainly not bring it to the masses. Sure it is a wet dream from a technical standpoint and I would love to fly on one but I really do not see the business case for it, especially since the ecological situation ain't gonna get better anytime soon, only worse.
Fuel yes, but also the limited routes. No flight over the continental US (too boomy), that was a killer.
@3:40 yeah not terribly specific but he does address it
And not enough range for trans-Pacific routes, and not enough demand for 'Pan American' (i.e.. up and down the new world--think New York to Buenos Aires, or LA to Santiago--go out to sea for most of the flight, go 'feet dry' to land)
Turbo fan engines instead of turbo jet engines. Lighter aircraft due to composite material = will be fuel efficient enough. Also quieter so over USA ok.
@@formxshape I'd love to know how much quieter a turbo fan is. 20%? 80%? Also, they will need to control the boom. If they can't do that then it won't fly over the US
I really wish this plane/company to come to it's potential, and not end up like Nikola
The diference is that they’re not gambling, they have a plane
In this case
A plane
I was thinking more along the lines of Theranos. However, this guy seems legit and is being very transparent.
I would be great if the ticket prices are within the reach of the general public instead of only the super rich. A ticket on Concorde, New York to London was $10,000 RT 20 years ago.
unfortunately it has to be that way because of fuel costs
When BOOM comes out It’ll be sad to have the extremely loud take off of the Concorde gone :(
SO SICK. CANT WAIT TO DLY THIS WHEN MY PARENTS CAN AFFORD IT
Channeling Kenny from South Park for that walkaround.
I would not fly on a plane called Boom, any more than I would sail on a ship called SOS.
this is great,my likes will never see a seat on a flight but it will help in travel.
are they trying to reduce the sonic boom at all with this plane?
no
maybe not them, but NASA and JAXA have been working hard to be able to reduce the boom, and its looking promising
It's litterally called boom so I guess its implied that there will be a sonic boom🤷
Baruka88 real men like the boom.
@DS the passenger doesn't really hear the sonic boom. It's loud inside Concorde thanks to its engines.
exciting times
I was glad to hear about the new fan engine, I hope it really is environmentally friendly.
It’s using 100% sustainable aviation fuel
these guys are the real deal, probably will save some money to invest in a couple of years in the IPO
This is awesome! It would be great if Concorde got back into the game and perhaps other startups also give Boom some competition 😜
Airbus has enough problems
Pretty cool... UA should buy like 15 of them
Great job we are fed up flying in cargo planes being used as passenger planes Time is precious and this plane will help us reach our loved ones fast.
Amazing 😉! Someone has to do it! It might as will be you folks.
They have changed the design. NOW it looks just like Concorde. With Boeing working on it. It's sure to go BOOM nose first into the ground.
iT WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC TO SEE THIS AIRCRAFT TAKING TO THE SKIES AND FLYING PASSENGERS AROUND THE WORLD AGAIN AT SUPERSONIC SPEED WOULDNT IT?
75% scaled Concorde build on composites and non afterburner turbofan jet engines yet to be built.. to save fuel need to reach mach 2.2 assuming regulations allow them to fly exempting noise regulations
CONCORDE V.2!!!!!!!!!!
Wow coool.
Thought I saw one flying over NYC today.
The windows look extraordinarily large for a passenger jet let alone a supersonic one. Have they thought this aspect of the design, which will be important to a lot of people, through thoroughly?
1:30 that’s the Tu-144 not the Concord
Don't really know why this couldn't be done exactly (to people in the comments that seem skeptical for some reason) - the technology to make the plane exists and could be done by anybody with the knowledge, expertise and funding. The concord was a problem because of it's operating cost, if they think they can get that down significantly by using newer technology then sure, why not?
when this expansion cycle comes to an end, we will see who is swimming without underwear
Concord replica great , please explain the difference would be curious to know why it would work now and not then.
Smaller
Low boom
Faster
More efficient
MAKE him the test pilot for his get rich quick plane
My Uncle wants to know where did you get the Boom model from?
Can't wait for an electric supersonic transport
Bloomberg and Boom on Zoom
Anything to show regarding the engine? You know one of the most important components of an aircraft.
Engine details for XB-1 and Overture are here in my story www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-06/boom-technology-wants-to-build-supersonic-jet-that-cuts-flight-times-in-half?sref=nPlhheXZ
That looks similar to one aircraft in Flight Simulator that only exists, for now, in Flight Simulator. The Stratojet Excaliur has similar performance. In Flight Simulator, it can do Mach 2.2 and cruise at 70,000 feet
If Boom Aviation pulls this off, and does make real world version of this Flight Simulator aircraft, the plane will have a range of 5000 nautical miles, which will give it enough range to fly from the west coast to Tokyo.
It would also be able to do LAX to Tahiti as well
So, how's this different/better than the Aerion SX-2 ?
the best technology....
As soon as the plane is done, starship will hop right past it to Tokyo in 45 mins.
And you dont even know will you land or crash or maybe you will die because of g forces or maybe you cant pay sor startship
What is Starship? All I see when I google it is Spacex's Starship which is not for commercial flights.
@@peterr6205 not yet...
No question on fuel and engine type? If it's not hydrogen, it doesn't have a future. Plain and simple.
If seats remain at the J or F price point, you've definitely have a future customer; and as long as range could do SYD - LAX!
Great engineering, wish you would've addressed the perpetual sonic boom issue as well as discussing how it actually would've been "environmentally friendly" ( your words). Take home from this: cool toy for the aristocracy. When is Bloomberg Quicktake going to stop highlighting this stuff and spend some time on tech that actually matters to those unfortunate few of us making less than 7 figures?
The eco stuff got cut out, but they're using some pretty interesting new types of fuel from these guys - www.prometheusfuels.com/. I've made about 100 something videos that cover tech of all kinds.