Congress may not let the Trump administration have the last word on the legalization of supersonic flight over U.S. soil. Before the holidays, the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee reported out H.R. 3410, the “Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act.” Its co-sponsors include several members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation — namely U.S. Reps. David Rouzer, […]
The jet engines Boom Supersonic’s designing for the airliners it wants to build in Greensboro may wind up powering data centers first. Boom announced Tuesday that it’s gotten an order from San Francisco-based Crusoe Inc. for 29 “Superpower” turbines for use in AI data centers. Crusoe has projects in store or online in Texas, Wyoming, […]
Growing up in California in the 1960s, my family’s house was about seven miles from Disneyland and seven miles from the beach. It was also about 15 miles from MCAS El Toro — which made sonic booms a feature of daily life. The Marines based there, you see, flew F-4 Phantoms. SOP was hit the afterburners, take off […]
Boom Supersonic has announced that it will test key components of the engines for its planned supersonic airliner at a site in Colorado near Denver. The company hopes to begin engine testing later this year. Its longer-term schedule still calls for it to start assembling the first of its airliners, called Overture, in its Greensboro […]
