Whats everyone's thoughts on BOOM Supersonic?
Will they make it?
Will they fail?
I've baby raged about this company on several threads before but I will do it again because my seething is neverending.
Boom supersonic is the most obvious investor scam in history.
Making a new aircraft is difficult, extremely difficult. One of the most important things is timing. Engine technology is changing constantly and that is why aircraft manufacturers have to line up the development of their models very carefully with the development of jet engines, jet engines can take a decade and enormous amounts of money to develop and get to market so you don't want your plane to have the last gens engines by the time it makes it to market...
Boom super sonic has decided that not only will they make a new plane to target a dead technology(super sonic airliners) they will also make a brand new engine in house partnered with a random small manufacturer no one's heard of. Not only that this new engine and aircraft will run on 100% SAF fuel a real technology that real companies have been trying to get working for decades but have been struggling. SAF currently can't even be mass produced and that is one of the reasons for it's higher cost.
So they are chucking money at another company saying, "Hey you know that SAF thing people have been working on for decades. Here's some pocket change I want you to just like... Figure it out in like 5 years." And betting their entire company on not only the other stuff but that to?
Now their test aircraft and the overture... Their test aircraft is another scam for investors. The real thing they need to prove is that their engines work but this test aircraft doesn't have their new engines it has 1970 era fighter jet engines taped onto it.
Their engine has never ran once. And your probably wondering why doesn't Boom contract out a real company to make the engines like they did with the fuel... Because everyone turned them away. Another company was running the same scam in 2010 saying they were going to make a super sonic business jet(arguebly a better business model btw) and paid GE to design a new super sonic engine for them... They ran out of money and GE cancelled the project when they stopped paying, of course no other company wants to make the mistake GE did by helping these retards.
On top of claiming they are going to invent a new type of engine, bring back super sonic aircraft, fix the whole noise issue, make it run on magic tree gas, do this all while making a profit. They are going to do overture test flights by 2027 at latest(after being pushed back from 2026) and it will be cheaper than the concord and sell 2k units.
Now the 2k units... The internet exists now, corporate people flying on planes have been leaning more into comfort and big rooms over speed. They can get work done on their laptop and all their meetings are scheduled weeks in advance before they arrive at their location. Who needs this product, with the internet being a thing who will have a need to urgently see someone as quick as possible in person. Fucking no one, the overture will have shitty outdated seats comparable to another aircrafts economy class to fix the amount of passengers they want.
So what's more likely, that this startup can make their own engine(something Airbus and Boeing doesn't do) bring their aircraft to test flight faster than the big two, fix every issue the Concord had, and make it more eco friendly with a technology the big players are still struggling with. Or that they are a scam.
