{"id":28208,"date":"2024-03-25T19:33:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T19:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=28208"},"modified":"2024-03-25T19:34:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T19:34:58","slug":"boom-supersonic-announces-successful-flight-of-xb-1-demonstrator-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/boom-supersonic-announces-successful-flight-of-xb-1-demonstrator-aircraft\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Boom Supersonic Announces Successful Flight of XB-1 Demonstrator Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photo above – The inaugural flight of XB-1 marks a major milestone toward the return of supersonic travel.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boom Supersonic<\/a>, the company building the world’s fastest airliner, Overture, has announced the successful flight of XB-1<\/a>, the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet, at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, California. Like Overture, XB-1 leverages state-of-the-art technologies to enable efficient supersonic flight including carbon fiber composites, advanced avionics, digitally optimized aerodynamics, and an advanced supersonic propulsion system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Today XB-1 took flight in the same hallowed airspace\nwhere the Bell X-1 first broke the sound barrier in 1947,” said Blake\nScholl, founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic. “I’ve been looking forward to\nthis flight since founding Boom in 2014, and it marks the most significant\nmilestone yet on our path to bring supersonic travel to passengers\nworldwide.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

XB-1 was flown by Boom Chief Test Pilot Bill “Doc”\nShoemaker and Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg flew the T-38\nchase aircraft which monitored the flight. XB-1 took off from the Mojave Air\n& Space Port and flew in the same airspace that hosted many historic first\nflights, including the flights of the Bell X-1, the North American X-15, and\nthe Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. XB-1 met all of its test objectives, including\nsafely and successfully achieving an altitude of 7,120 feet and speeds up to\n238 knots (273 mph).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Everyone on the XB-1 team should be incredibly proud\nof this achievement,” said Bill “Doc” Shoemaker, Chief Test\nPilot for Boom Supersonic. “It has been a privilege to share this journey\nwith so many dedicated and talented professionals. The experience we have\ngained in reaching this milestone will be invaluable to Boom’s revival of\nsupersonic travel.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two decades after Concorde’s retirement, the first flight of\nXB-1 marks the return of a civil supersonic aircraft to the skies and paves the\nway for the revival of mainstream supersonic travel. The XB-1 program provides\nthe foundation for the design and development of Overture, while establishing a\nsafety-first culture in engineering and manufacturing. XB-1 validates key\ntechnologies and innovations, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Augmented reality vision system: Two nose-mounted cameras,\ndigitally augmented with attitude and flight path indications, feed a high-resolution\npilot display enabling excellent runway visibility. This system enables\nimproved aerodynamic efficiency without the weight and complexity of a movable\nnose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digitally optimized aerodynamics: Engineers used\ncomputational fluid dynamics simulations to explore thousands of designs for\nXB-1. The result is an optimized design that combines safe and stable operation\nat takeoff and landing with efficiency at supersonic speeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carbon fiber composites: XB-1 is almost entirely made from\ncarbon fiber composite materials, enabling it to realize a sophisticated\naerodynamic design in a strong, lightweight structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supersonic intakes: XB-1’s engine intakes slow supersonic\nair to subsonic speeds, efficiently converting kinetic energy into pressure\nenergy, allowing conventional jet engines to power XB-1 from takeoff through\nsupersonic flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inaugural flight of the XB-1 demonstrator takes place as\nOverture continues to advance toward production, with a growing global network\nof Tier 1 suppliers and an order book including 130 orders and pre-orders from\nAmerican Airlines, United Airlines, and Japan Airlines. Overture will carry\n64-80 passengers at Mach 1.7, about twice the speed of today’s subsonic\nairliners. Optimized for speed, safety, and sustainability, Overture is\ndesigned to run on up to 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo above – The inaugural flight of XB-1 marks a major milestone toward the return of supersonic travel. Boom Supersonic, the company building the world’s fastest airliner, Overture, has announced the successful flight of XB-1, the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet, at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, California. Like Overture, XB-1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page-slider","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Boom_Supersonic_inaugural_flight-edit-2-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28210,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28208\/revisions\/28210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}