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Boom is a YC company building a modern, supersonic passenger airliner: https://boomsupersonic.com/ https://boomsupersonic.com/

tbrock 6y ago
The name is both great and awful at the same time.
- lostlogin 6y ago
  Will it be the passengers or the employees that get referred to as ‘Boomers’?
  - Koshkin 6y ago
    Yeah, they should have simply named the company Zoomersonic.
  - jandrese 6y ago
    Boomers are the only people who will be able to afford seats anyway.
  - WWLink 6y ago
    No, they'll be referred to as boomernauts
- tupac_speedrap 6y ago
  I feel like they are playing themselves here. The NIMBYs only need to look at the company name and know they don't want that near their back yard.
  - raldi 6y ago
    The plane will be known by the product name, not the company name. >99% of the public couldn't tell you the name of the company that built the Concorde.
    - speedgoose 6y ago
      If the name of one of the companies making the concorde was Boom, I'm very sure people would know it.
    - bb611 6y ago
      In fairness to the public, the two companies involved in producing Concorde have each changed names 3+ times after merging with other major aircraft and industrial concerns, and are each now fading memories as part of the two largest European aerospace & defense conglomerates. I'd actually wager a significant portion of the population would correctly say Airbus, but for the wrong reasons - it's the only French aerospace company they can think of. I did a straw poll among some friends and got a lot of "I don't know what that is. Do you mean the grape?"
- rbanffy 6y ago
  It's reminiscent of an ancient sci-fi series, Fireball XL-5. Who names a rocket "Fireball"?
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rplnt 6y ago
> Window or aisle? No need to choose This is a realtor talk right here. Selling limitations as benefits.
runarberg 6y ago
Call me a pessimist, can we really afford to lunch new “modern” supersonic airplanes when the climate crisis has reached an irreversible turning point, with no solution in sight. I think efforts like these suffer from serious disconnect at best, or some criminal lack of ethics at worst.
baybal2 6y ago
Unless the engine question is solved, I don't see any of the new wave of civilian SSTs (Boom, Spike, Aerion) going anywhere. The airplane talk, let alone an SST, is pretty much all about the engine. So, with none of them putting an engine on the table, whatever else they do is, honestly speaking, pointless. Be sceptical.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y ago
  I'm not involved in aerospace. What is "the engine question"?
  - baybal2 6y ago
    There is simply no civilian engine out there for an SST. Even original Concorde engines are not what they need today. Even the best military engines today will barely work for the role. They need around 20t of dry thrust at speeds at speeds around Mach 1.7-2.0, and big enough fan for takeoff at the same time.

tbrock 6y ago

The name is both great and awful at the same time.

lostlogin 6y ago
Will it be the passengers or the employees that get referred to as ‘Boomers’?
- Koshkin 6y ago
  Yeah, they should have simply named the company Zoomersonic.
- jandrese 6y ago
  Boomers are the only people who will be able to afford seats anyway.
- WWLink 6y ago
  No, they'll be referred to as boomernauts
tupac_speedrap 6y ago
I feel like they are playing themselves here. The NIMBYs only need to look at the company name and know they don't want that near their back yard.
- raldi 6y ago
  The plane will be known by the product name, not the company name. >99% of the public couldn't tell you the name of the company that built the Concorde.
  - speedgoose 6y ago
    If the name of one of the companies making the concorde was Boom, I'm very sure people would know it.
  - bb611 6y ago
    In fairness to the public, the two companies involved in producing Concorde have each changed names 3+ times after merging with other major aircraft and industrial concerns, and are each now fading memories as part of the two largest European aerospace & defense conglomerates. I'd actually wager a significant portion of the population would correctly say Airbus, but for the wrong reasons - it's the only French aerospace company they can think of. I did a straw poll among some friends and got a lot of "I don't know what that is. Do you mean the grape?"
rbanffy 6y ago
It's reminiscent of an ancient sci-fi series, Fireball XL-5. Who names a rocket "Fireball"?

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rplnt 6y ago

> Window or aisle? No need to choose This is a realtor talk right here. Selling limitations as benefits.

runarberg 6y ago

Call me a pessimist, can we really afford to lunch new “modern” supersonic airplanes when the climate crisis has reached an irreversible turning point, with no solution in sight. I think efforts like these suffer from serious disconnect at best, or some criminal lack of ethics at worst.

baybal2 6y ago

Unless the engine question is solved, I don't see any of the new wave of civilian SSTs (Boom, Spike, Aerion) going anywhere. The airplane talk, let alone an SST, is pretty much all about the engine. So, with none of them putting an engine on the table, whatever else they do is, honestly speaking, pointless. Be sceptical.

hn_throwaway_99 6y ago
I'm not involved in aerospace. What is "the engine question"?
- baybal2 6y ago
  There is simply no civilian engine out there for an SST. Even original Concorde engines are not what they need today. Even the best military engines today will barely work for the role. They need around 20t of dry thrust at speeds at speeds around Mach 1.7-2.0, and big enough fan for takeoff at the same time.