Concorde's return? Aviation industry confident: Supersonic flights ahead

• Published date: 05 April 2024
• Author: MAARIV ONLINE
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

A decade after the company started the project in 2014, Boom CEO Blake Scholl told CNN that the challenging part of development is over. "I strongly believe in the return of commercial flights in supersonic planes; ultimately, they will return to flying in regular routes. It's not happening overnight, but the difficult part in building the plane is to create something so refined that is safe for takeoff and landing"

The maiden flight of the plane met all the experiment's objectives, including reaching a height of 7,120 feet and a speed of up to 238 knots, which is around 273 miles per hour. According to the company's CEO, the plane can reach speeds of Mach 1, and the aspiration is that it will indeed happen. "We are going to...