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There also exists a Boom rival - Spike Aerospace[1]. They successfully completed and operated flight demonstrators (SX-1) and working on delivering a production
by xvilka 7y ago
There also exists a Boom rival - Spike Aerospace[1]. They successfully completed and operated flight demonstrators (SX-1) and working on delivering a production plane now.
[1] https://www.spikeaerospace.com/ https://www.spikeaerospace.com/
- tim333 7y agoThere's something a little sketchy seeming about Spike if you look at their website. The Boom demonstrator in this article is a real, hopefully supersonic aircraft with lots of photos etc, but Spike seem to have zero photos of the SX-1 which is/was apparently a subsonic radio controlled aircraft.
- NotSammyHagar 7y agoHow can spike say on their front page "The Spike S-512 is the only supersonic jet in development that will fly at twice the speed of other jets without creating a loud sonic boom." Boom is also aiming for 2x existing jets without sonic booms. That's wrong, misleading, is there some narrow explanation for how that could be accurate?