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Awkward... The website FAQs still say "XB-1 test flights are planned for early 2022."
by Rebelgecko 4y ago
Awkward... The website FAQs still say "XB-1 test flights are planned for early 2022."
- brandmeyer 4y agoWay more delayed than that. Once upon a time, they were planning on test flights in 2017. Then 2018. Then 2019. Then 2020. Etc. https://interestingengineering.com/culture/boom-xb1-supersonic-test-flights https://interestingengineering.com/culture/boom-xb1-superson... https://www.denverpost.com/2017/06/20/centennial-boom-supersonic-airplane-design/ https://www.denverpost.com/2017/06/20/centennial-boom-supers... https://www.flightglobal.com/strategy/paris-boom-xb-1-schedule-slips-while-jal-eyes-overture/133222.article https://www.flightglobal.com/strategy/paris-boom-xb-1-schedu...
- 0x457 4y agoXB-1 is a prototype plane for R&D. It's target first flight now is fall 2022. Overture is a production model for commercial operations.
- hef19898 4y agoEhich measn, technically and legally, XB-1 isn't an aircraft. As pointed out elsewhere, the hard stuff is up ahead. Cudos so for BOOM for having customers signed on, something a lot of eVTOL companies only managed to do very recently.