China’s boom Supersonic CEO Breakshoull unveils a new supersonic jet, impacting the industry, the benefits of faster flights, whether the next Air Force can upgrade.
According to Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl, the US is currently ahead of China when it comes to planes that can fly faster than sound speeds.
“I think aviation has always been seen as a symbol of technical advantage,” Scholl said Tuesday in the appearance of “Morning of Maria.” “Like chips, planes are invented in the US, and China wants to surpass America as leaders. In technology, Of course, they are pursuing supersonic speed. The next step in aviation. ”
Boom Supersonic Founder and CEO Blake Scholl will be posing at Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference C at Farnborough International Airshow 2024 on the XB-1 model, the world’s first independently developed supersonic aircraft. (John Keeble / Getty Images / Getty Images)
South China Morning Post Over the weekend, China’s state-run Commercial Aircraft Corporation (COMAC) reported that it was working on a supersonic jet called the C949.
Boom Supersonic says the XB-1 aircraft flew the Mach 1.
According to the outlet, the aircraft detailed in the blueprint of a recent academic paper aims to reach Mach 1.6 and have a sonic boom that is barely heard when the project comes into play. The jet design is reportedly having a range of 50% longer than Concord.
I have comac Previously, they wanted to bring the supersonic C949 to the market by 2049, South China Morning Post reported.
Scholl told host Maria Bartiromo that the “good news” is that the US is now “first” to China for the Supersonic Jets.
“We have the only operational non-military supersonic jet in the world,” he said. “That’s the XB-1 prototype. We’ve demonstrated that it can be done without a sonic boom.”
This is the case with Boom Supersonic, a shawl company. Denver-based FIRBehind the XB-1.
Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demo aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time in late January. During its highly planned test flight, the jet surpassed the Mach 1 several times “without generating a boom of sound that reached the ground,” the company said.
Boom Supersonic XB-1 aircraft in test flight. (Boom Supersonic/Fox News)
Scholl went on to inform Baltiromo that the US is “a problem now” that it is “a matter for us now, in our own way, in our own way.”
According to Federal Aviation Administration Website, US regulations prohibit private flights above Mach 1 while traveling through American lands.
“Speed flights in the US have been banned since the 1970s,” he explained. “It’s really ridiculous. It should have banned the sonic boom, or at least the bad sounding boom, but instead, the regulations have been in the books for over 50 years, preventing US companies from building the next generation of faster jets.”
According to Boom Supersonic CEO, the US’s stricter supersonic regulations have affected countries that compete with China.
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“I think it’s really soft power and a symbol of technical advantage. It’s something other parts of the world are trying to see,” he said. “But it’s important for national and economic security.”
“Boeing is the number one US exporter right now, but they haven’t invented it. New plane In over 20 years. At the same time, a quarter of all Air Force planes are actually commercial planes that have been modified. This is a commercial plane that we have tankers, our transport, even many of our spy planes, are modified commercial planes. So, if there is no next-generation commercial transport, that means there is no next-generation military transport. I think it’s really scary. You can’t make it happen. ”
Shoal hopes the US will change regulations related to commercial supersonic flights.
“It’s a really simple and easy change. Now we literally have a regulation that says, ‘You don’t exceed Mach 1’. It should be said that you should say, “You don’t make a bad noise,” he said during his appearance on “The Morning of Maria.” “If there is no sonic boom on the ground, if supersonic flight is possible, it should be obviously permitted.”
Boom Supersonic says it aims to “bring Supersonic to everyone.”
Boom Supersonic XB-1 breaks sound barrier during test flight
The XB-1 demo aircraft, the large jet “provides a foundation” for overtures, is being created for commercial supersonic flights.
The Boom Supersonic XB-1 jet is an XB-1 jet in a previous test flight. (Boom Super Sonic)
The overture is supposed to have a capacity of between 64 and 80 passengers. Boom Supersonic also said the jet is supposed to reach twice the speed of the current plane on water and 50% faster on land.
