Boom XB-1

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Boom XB-1
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Type: Experimental airplane
Design country:

United StatesUnited States United States

Manufacturer:

Boom technology

First flight:

pending

The Boom XB-1 , dubbed Baby Boom , is a two-seat experimental technology carrier in development for a proposed supersonic aircraft called Overture by start-up aviation company Boom Technology . The first flight is planned for 2021.

development

The XB-1 was assembled in a hangar of the manufacturer at Centennial Airport in the south of Denver from 2017 . In summer 2020, components such as the chassis of the Boom XB-1 were tested and the fuselage completed. The so-called rollout has been announced for October 7, 2020 . The first ground tests of the finished aircraft were targeted for the end of 2020.

A partnership with Flight Research Inc. (FRI) was entered into for the test phase. This company trains the pilots on T-38 . The test flights are also to be carried out from Centinental Airport. These are to take place in cooperation with Virgin Galactic in a supersonic test corridor near Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California - originally announced for 2019, but will not be held until 2021. 3170 kg (7000 lb ) of kerosene are to be carried in eleven separate tanks . Is driven, the XB-1 by three turbojet - jet engines of the type General Electric J85-21 . The fuel is said to be CO2 neutral and is supplied by Prometheus Fuels . A speed of Mach 2.2 (around 2700 km / h) should be achieved.

A large part of the aircraft is made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic .

Boom wanted to be able to deliver supersonic aircraft for commercial passenger flights by 2023, Japan Airlines had already invested $ 10 million in 2017 and pre-ordered 20 aircraft. With the smaller test version Boom XB-1, a first goal should be achieved on the way there. According to the manufacturer, it will be the fastest civil aircraft in history and demonstrate the key technologies for applied supersonic travel. During the final assembly of the test aircraft Boom XB-1, the focus turned to the development of the full-blown Overture: In summer 2020, the start of their flight tests "in the mid-2020s" was targeted.

literature

  • Concorde successors are taking shape: supersonic without a bang. In: FliegerRevue No. 9/2017, pp. 14–15
  • Concept Insight: Boom XB-1. In: AIR International , Vol. 99, No. 2 from August 2020, pp. 46–47

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boom calls the Concorde successor Ouverture . ( aerobuzz.de [accessed on January 19, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Bernd Eberhart: The future of flying - Science & Fiction . In: Katja Kohlhammer (Ed.): Image of Science . Konradin Medien GmbH, Leinenfelden-Echterdingen September 2017, p. 17 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Boom’s Supersonic XB-1 Demonstrator Plots Course For Overture , aviationweek, June 24, 2020
  4. ↑ a b c Boom - Supersonic Passenger Airplanes. Retrieved September 17, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Patrick Zwerger: "Baby Boom": Boom announces rollout date for its XB-1. July 10, 2020, accessed July 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b The supersonic jet from the oven , NZZ , March 28, 2020
  7. ↑ Our partnership with Japan Airlines - Boom Supersonic . In: Boom Supersonic . December 5, 2017 ( boomsupersonic.com [accessed January 7, 2018]).