Overture is scheduled to go into production in 2024 and will be fully operational by 2029
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Video: The supersonic jetliner built to run on sustainable fuels
Boom is getting ready to roll out its first supersonic jet, the XB-1. The aircraft is a one-third-scale demonstrator of Boom’s planned flagship, the Overture, which could be the first commercial supersonic jet since the Concorde.
Aerospace
In pictures: Virgin Galactic unveils designs for Mach 3 supersonic passenger plane
The aircraft’s draft design showed a plane with a triangular “delta wing” carrying between nine and 19 passengers at an altitude of more than 60,000 feet, or 18,000 meters — about twice as high as normal commercial flight.
Airbus
Video: Why we still don’t have another Concorde
The Concorde changed the way we traveled 40 years ago by drastically cutting flight times between Europe and the US. However, the Concorde retired in 2003, and there’s yet to be a reemergence of a commercial supersonic jet.
Air transport
Video: Could supersonic transport be making a comeback?
The Concorde led the way in aviation technology but its program lasted less than 30 years. Supersonic transport hasn’t been seen since in commercial aviation, but it may be about to make a comeback.