Boom Technology

Despite its lack of big-name partners and a less slick public appearance, Spike is viewed as a real contender and is working on a similar timescale to Aerion.

Then there's Boom Technologies.

If you've heard of any supersonic aircraft developer, this is the one.

Their business model is entirely different.

oceans, but over continents too.

Therefore, while their methods differ from NASA's, both companies are selling their aircraft off of the promise of quiet sonic booms.

Boom Technologies, though, with their Overture commercial jet, is taking a different tack.

When looking at Boom's marketing materials, all the potential routes mentioned are transoceanic, and that's no mistake.

Ursa Major where I worked previously is based here and there's, you know, amazing propulsion talent there.

We've got a lot of aerospace companies based out of here, Boom Supersonics out here, Crusoe's out here.

And so, and then beyond that, when you go kind of past the startups, there's a huge oil and gas market, you know, in kind of the Denver, larger metro area, and just a really big focus on power out here.

And so I think it's a really good market for, you know, controls and folks that have worked on turbines in their past life and We've done like satellite propulsion and like, you know, even rocket propulsion now.

So I think, like, as you think through-- if you're a founder thinking through building a company in the hardware space, what can you do to start your product in a place where it is going to be more capital efficient? Can you start with a smaller version and then scale up? Can you do, uh, a component and then scale it to the full system? Um, all those things I think are worth considering.

Do you know the Boom Supersonic story?

Not in detail, no.

So Blake Scholl previously, I think his episode was, uh, around 200.

When fully operational, the Starship launch system is expected to dramatically lower the cost of access to space through its tremendous economies of scale and is a crucial component of the company's goal of reaching Mars, so this first successful test marked a major milestone in the process of unlocking the next era of space access and exploration.

On March twenty-second, Boom Supersonic conducted the first successful test flight of their XB-1 demonstrator aircraft, which they say will be, quote, "the world's first independently developed supersonic jet." It reached a top speed of two hundred and seventy-three miles or four hundred and thirty-nine kilometers per hour in twelve quick minutes of flight.

This was just the first of a number of test flights the company conducted this year at the Mojave Air and Space Port, and March's flight was the first instance of a non-military supersonic aircraft flying in US airspace in twenty years, last done by Concorde, even if it didn't yet reach supersonic speeds.

Developing and successfully flying this single-seat jet is a crucial step in Boom's goal of introducing its eighty-seat commercial supersonic aircraft, Overture, to the skies by twenty twenty-nine.

aircraft's doing.

Which is what a private company named Boom Supersonic did last year.

Exactly.

And I mean, for crying out loud, Boom Supersonic almost has a full... engine built for their symphony

which is crazy uh the engine that they said that all the other experts said that they couldn't build

exactly exactly so i mean they still have a long ways to go but hey they're doing it and they're pushing forward they're well funded up to this point yeah um they're doing an amazing job and i can't wait to see them succeed well i can't

Yep, they are.

I agree.

ETOPS flights could be impacted by the closing of an airport on a tiny South Pacific island.

Boom Supersonic loses the launch customer for their land-based superpower stationary power plant.

And from the entertain you a little along the way department, pilots are accused of being in a, quote, "club of furry fetishists." We couldn't make that up.

All that and more coming up right now.

Yeah.

So, um, yeah, if that, uh, little Midway Island, uh, runway loses its, its certification for lack of, uh, funding to, to bring it up to spec, then it's, it's gonna have a big impact, or it could have a big impact, meaning that the airlines would have to fly different routes, um, in order to maintain their, uh, ETOPS distance.

So, um, Quick mentioned, a few episodes ago we talked about how Boom Supersonic was kind of making a little pivot to fund their engine.

In fact, I think this was episode 874, and, uh, Boom Supersonic we described as developing a plan to create a land-based, what they call superpower stationary power plant as a derivative of their Symphony engine.

Y sobre el suministro eléctrico de la infraestructura de IA con Amber.

Cyrus, constructora de centros de datos para IA, se ha retirado de un contrato de mil doscientos cincuenta millones de dólares para comprar veintinueve turbinas de gas natural a Boom Supersonic, la startup aeronáutica que reconvirtió su motor supersónico para generación terrestre.

Cyrus, recién reforzada con tres mil novecientos millones en nueva financiación, dice que quiere flexibilidad para elegir cómo obtiene energía en cada sitio.

Para Boom, significa perder a su cliente ancla de lanzamiento, aunque la empresa asegura tener otros compradores confirmados para el año que viene.