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7/3/2025, 8:02:00 PM
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>XB-1
The kludge job using a 1960's-era turbojet that needed to run afterburners to break supersonic? That's irrelevant to the commercial aircraft that they want to build.
General Electric, Rolls-Royce, Safran, and Pratt & Whittney told them to take a hike when they asked for a turbofan that could take them supersonic with dry thrust and not retarded fuel consumption. That's why they're trying to build an entirely novel engine for the Overture. If designing a new engine was too expensive for a $38 billion dollar company that's been making engines since the 1940s, then I have minimal expectation for Boom to con enough VC money to figure it out before they go bankrupt.
>XB-1
The kludge job using a 1960's-era turbojet that needed to run afterburners to break supersonic? That's irrelevant to the commercial aircraft that they want to build.
General Electric, Rolls-Royce, Safran, and Pratt & Whittney told them to take a hike when they asked for a turbofan that could take them supersonic with dry thrust and not retarded fuel consumption. That's why they're trying to build an entirely novel engine for the Overture. If designing a new engine was too expensive for a $38 billion dollar company that's been making engines since the 1940s, then I have minimal expectation for Boom to con enough VC money to figure it out before they go bankrupt.
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