Originally Posted by
PAXboy
They posted an update on their webiste - picked up by a few news companies - about their first supersonic trials.
They say:
BECAUSE IT WAS 1950 and 60 AND NO ONE HAD DONE IT BEFORE.
No acknowledgement of what went before and how they are building on that. No mention of 50 years of innovation in materials, fuels and electronics. It is great that they got there but, may I say: Typical Americans?
Boom Website
Well this typical American remains unimpressed... yes, first time a privately funded, privately developed aircraft has gone supersonic. Yes it took a lot of smart people and engineering talent to get there, at Boom and over the last 50 years. But it's a technology demonstrator that just repackages 50 years of innovation in materials, fuels, and electronics.
I'm still fuzzy on how much, if any, of the technology demonstrated on the XB-1 translates into the eventual Overture supersonic airliner.