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Boom Supersonic Advances Flight Preparations for XB-1
Boom Supersonic, the company building the world’s fastest airliner, Overture, today announced it has completed several key milestones for XB-1, Boom’s technology demonstrator aircraft. XB-1 leverages 60 years of progress in airplane technologies like carbon fiber composites, advanced avionics, and digitally-optimized aerodynamics to enable sustainable supersonic travel. (www.breakingtravelnews.com) More...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
"The world's fastest airliner" was of course Concorde, which was prevented from flying supersonic over land.
Seems that this XB-1 has (3) GE J-85 engines in a tri-jet configuration, but basically resembles a jet trainer aircraft. No resemblance to an air transport grade aircraft.
Thus the X designation and the description in the article it’s a “demonstrator”
It's a 1/3 scale demonstrator...
I see four engines in a two-two configuration.
You see four engines on a "conceptual artist rendering" of a proposed " Overture " The news article and my comment, refer to the Boom model XB-1 .