US 'Quiet' Concorde Successor is Ready For 2024 Supersonic Flight! 

Its not the time in the air that I hate about flying, its the airports.

I’ll believe it when it happens 😂

Funny that the Americans didn’t like the fact that we the the British and French aero industry were the first to build a supersonic passenger aircraft . They spent a lot of time trying to ban it , now , after the demise of Concorde suddenly are in favour of the idea . Jealousy of the fact that we did it first . I think that if the makers of Concorde had been able to continue the development of it , we would still be the ones in the vanguard of this. As with many early developments in engineering they are ahead of their time and are not appreciated . As a I was privileged to work on the development of some of the generator systems and automated fluid control devices in the late fifties and seventies, Inam proud of what we achieved in those early days.

So am I the only one who thinks ‘Boom’ is a rather unfortunate name for a company wishing to make supersonic flight normal over land where it wasn’t due to…yep you beat me to it, sonic bloody booms.

I flew on Concord and will be happy to fly on Overture

It will only be a Concord successor when it takes more than 140 passengers over the same range that Concord did decades ago. Concord is still unmatched.

That is a supersonic airliner in the same way as Blue Origin's New Shepard is a spacecraft. So far, neither company has done any of the difficult stuff!

Why would you use AI narration?

The narrator missed a very important issue regarding the Concorde. Altogether, disregarding the fact that on 25 July 2000, Concorde passenger jet on an international charter flight from Paris to New York, crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground. It was the only fatal concord accident during its 27 year operational history. While taking off from Charles de Gaulle airport, Concorde flight 4590 ran over debris on the runway dropped by an aircraft during the preceding departure, causing a tire to explode and disintegrate. Tire fragments launched upwards at great speed rapidly spinning wheel, violently struck the underside of the wing, damaging parts of the landing gear - and therefore preventing its retraction and causing the fuel tank to rupture. Fuel leaking from the rupture ignited, causing a loss of thrust in the left -hand-side engines 1 and 2. The aircraft lifted off, but the loss of thrust, high drag from the extended landing gear, and fire damage to the flight controls made it impossible to maintain control. The jet crashed into a hotel in nearby Gonesse two minutes after takeoff. All nine crew and 100 passengers aboard perished, as well as four people in the hotel. Four other people sustained slight injuries. Source, Wikipedia. Look for (Concorde crash) videos on RU-vid

As someone who just sat on a 12 hour flight, I am hoping this becomes a reality!

Are those two scientists at 9:50 looking at an Apple keyboard and pretending it’s some kind of high tech tablet?

Fantastic! Can't wait

It's very exciting, can't wait to see the full size aircraft in action.

Continues success Boom Supersonic!

Boom is definitely on my bucket list. N.A. to Europe in four hours; fantastic!!

Engines will be built in San Antonio but the plane will be built in Greensboro, NC.

I heard the Concorde fly over my neighborhood in New York City. The engines operated at a shrieking, excruciating volume. The noise, at ground level, wasn't just distracting, it hurt. Many years later I walked through a Concorde cabin at The Intrepid Museum and was surprised at how small it was---something like a Greyhound bus in terms of headroom. I think the problem with hypersonic flight is it's not worth the three or four hours of saved time. Why take a quick flight when you still have to waste two or three hours in each of two airports? The effort and expense would be better spent on roomier airplane cabins and speedier, more efficient customer service in the airports.

Can we ban it in the uk for five years to get our own back on the Americans

Great idea! Best of luck on completing the flight-testing phase and being approved for commercial operations.

Can't wait to fly on Overture!

I flew Concorde several times, and the convenience was wonderful. It was reasonably comfortable. There were some interesting/humorous differences between the French and British versions of the Concorde experience.

9:25 I JUST WANNA BE PART OF YOUR SYMPHONYYYYYYY!! All jokes aside, I love this new concept/project. I am eager to see these in the skies.

You've got to be kidding me -- the narrator completely ignores the final nail in the Concorde's lifespan: the horrible crash of July 25th, 2000.

This is going to Bee sooo good 😉

an ambitious project - let's hope they are able to pull it off :)

Remember hearing what I thought were 2 military jets flying overhead in the 1970's, but it was Concorde on a slow approach to Logan airport. Extremely loud even at a slow speed!

From your very first statement, you prove that you just don't get it. I hope to never have to fly again, because of the ridiculous waiting and feeble yet intrusive security checks that I had to endure _on the ground_ . Once we were airborne, I kind of enjoyed the flight.

There is no way that the engines will be running in 2025. These things take years to develop by experienced companies, never mind an up start. Developing an engine for supersonic aircraft is even harder, maybe it will be ready for flight testing by 2030.

YEESSS!!! Take my money!!!😂 Keep going Gentlemen. #SemperFi

Flying that jet somewhere for $8k (80x$100) sounds painfully unrealistic.

8:17 Routine over the air upgrades. I'm wworried already.

Fly anywhere for 100 dollars. I'm dreaming.

This is another step forward in time travel, bravo

"Don't worry! All the latest technology in design and manufacturing tools, materials and processes and engine development will make it all happen cause we want it to!" I can remember a project requiring a high performance engine where the engine manufacture said "sure no problem". Never happened but hey it's good to have dreams and at least try! Best of luck to all!

Boom will go boom! This aint childs play

At the Dubai airshow in 2016, Boom said it would be test flown the next year… Looks like quite the money suck.

How do you say "a human is not reading this, and an app is translating text to the voice we hear" without saying "a human is not reading this, and an app is translating text to the voice we hear" ... Boeing Seven Hundred and Forty Seven... lol...747

100 USD ! you must be kidding

The sound barrier is the issue, not the ability. It will never replace jets.

Concorde was built in Filton, edge of ristol in the UK, not Farnborough... The Toulouse accident in July 2000 was almost certainly a factor in Concorde's demise.

We complain about hours in a plane, but beats the hell out months in a horse drawn wagon.

Impressive; although the name BOOM reminds me of explosions and sonic booms; Things I would have thought they would not want to be associated with...

This is a Boom ad, right? The full text sounds as their PR leaflet and presentation being read out aloud. If they actually produce a "funcional core" in 2025 - a big IF - they might be getting a first flying prototype ready towards 2030. I guess Boom is currently looking for a new investment round? I guess some of the stuff they learn on the way will be able to be used for other, real aircraft though.

I am so excited for this plane

I hope this plane is successful. Bruce

I think if they get as far as supersonic flight the only way the sonic boom will be quieter than Concorde is that it will be a home grown USA sonic boom, not a foreign one 😅

It's fascinating how concord is apparently the only supersonic plane so far!... at least according to this video.... what about Tu144?

No details about how they intend to quieten down the sonic "boom"? More details please.

The XB is definitely a Government fighter jet contract that is allowing the Overture project to continue. They just don't want to say it..

It’s impressive but what’s the point if it’s outrageously expensive thereby excluding most of the travelling public. Also I don’t think most people really have a problem with 7 hours. It’s the 14-15 hr journeys that are the real killer. Hell, I live in Australia and it’s ten hours minimum to anywhere substantial. What we need is an aircraft that actually leaves the atmosphere in order to truly travel long distances quickly but then I’m sure the cost again would be too high for the average punter.

At 1’58 it is not a Concorde cabin… Concorde seats were 2+2.

The standard rotation of a LEO satellite around the globe is 90 minutes at an altitude of only 250 miles. Flying a passenger from Los Angeles to London could take LESS THAN ONE HOUR if a rocket can be used. The boarding pass, however, will be larger to contain the printed cost......

The British Concorde first took flight from Filton, Bristol NOT Farnborough as stated here.

I think if they put a camera pointed towards the front of that aircraft and showed that it would feel like we are moving. Ina car you look forward way more than look out the side windows.

The crash of the Concorde in Paris, July 25, 2000, is not mentioned at all, or as a reason for the retirement of the Concorde service.

" boom IS a commercial aircraft manufacturer"..... please tell me which commercial aircraft they have manufactured ....you can't , because they haven't.

The test pilot has put his test protocols on RU-vid, showing a speed of 300 KIAS (345 mph) before returning to base.

A hundred dollars a trip? Don’t make me pee myself laughing😂😂😂 This is and always will be a luxury for the ultra rich who think four or five hours of their time is worth a thousand times more than 99% of us ordinary folk.

Just a 1/3rd scale demonstrator that flew in March 2024 . First flight of the actual and larger passenger plane is still years away.

Cool science experiment, but mark my words... We won't see this plane in commercial service.

Remember not to talk about the tires and landing speeds. They won't know any better.

The fuel consumption is well above the limit of acceptance for pollution, so the geeks in California will NOT allow it to come near local skies. The Concord lost its customers because the wait time at the Airport was 3 hours on the ground before the flight, another hour to collect your luggage. Only 17 Concords were built, 15 were sold, with no customer for the last 2 birds.

You guys got it wrong- Overture is not a low-boom design and will never be able to fly supersonically over land. You got it confused with the NASA/Lockheed-Martin X-59 QUEST proof of concept aircraft. Overture is not using that technology. Forget about the "thump". Regardless, I with them well and hope to see Overture flying to Europe some day.

Scott Manley has a really interesting visit to the test plane on his channel.

So why hasn't the industry produced aircraft that travel just under the speed of sound at say 700 mph?

Not just time in the sky but the time in the airports which many times exceeds the time in the air.

237 MPH is unbelievably...slow. Currently passenger jets fly between 480 and 575 MPH. You need to go at least 767 MPH to break the sound barrier.

There is so much greed by the airlines that there will never be $100 ticket price for supersonic travel!!!😂😅

Two major problems with this: 1) Any supersonic aircraft has to use a pure jet engine. It cannot use a more fuel-efficient and quieter high bypass ratio fanjet, because of the drag created by the intakes. So the sound of overflights at low altitude, especially takeoff, around airports near dense urban areas is always going to be unacceptable to urban populations that already struggle to accept current quiet aircraft engine noise. No "modern intake design" is going to change that. 2) Sonic booms created by high-altitude supersonic flights are always going to be a problem. No refinement of aircraft design is ever going to change that. The only positive thing in favour of Boom will be that they are American. There will be an element of National pride that America has created something no other nation has, which will make it more acceptable to the American public and to the American transport regulatory organisations. I know, because as a Brit I was (and stil am) proud of Concorde for much the same reasons. But it means the Boom aircraft will only ever be allowed to fly supersonic routes over populated areas in American airspace, for the same reason that Concorde was banned for those areas, and will otherwise only be allowed oceanic routes in the same way that Concorde was. So this video is not a factual assessment of this project, but an advert for it. It glosses over the problems and emphasises the advantages. Yes, a new era of supersonic flight, following where Concorde led, would be fantastic. But please don't gloss over the problems, and please recognise what a fantastic technical achievement Concorde represented.

Can the community guidelines extend to include honest headlines?

I hope it’s electric powered or does net zero not matter this week?

It is technically possible. But the regulators will almost certainly make it uneconomic. The development costs can be just too much..the Concord required the resources of two countries

Interesting. I was expecting another video about Hermeus and Quarterhorse. Hermeus has its own passenger aircraft, Halcyon, being developed. Halcyon will go Mach 5. Much faster than BOOM's Mach 1.6. The race is on.

This is just a Boom Supersonic commercial.

The 1st with a possibility of building a supersonic airliners were the NAZIs who expected to control the world and would need to move the overmenchen around the world. The USA was next as we had this crazy idea that 1st you built a fighter and then a bomber and then an airliner. The supersonic bomber was already built so the USA wanted to fund the airliner. The problem was that all supersonic flight is expensive. The US Congress decided that it didn't make sense to spend more money on supersonic airliners. France and Britain decided to go ahead with supersonic airliners. They did and list vast sums of money. The technology problems can be overcome but making it profitable is the challenge

I disagree. I think that most people would change the "hurry up and wait" queues when boarding a plane if given a choice...

Sounds like OceanGate.

Half a century ago, 100 people were drinking Champagne, at Mach 2.1, at 60,000 feet. All this video does is make me appreciate how amazingly advanced Concorde was. Here's the rub though. Nobody really cares about journey time, if the journey is pleasant. The problem with international travel is that it's just a terrible experience, from parking your car at one end, to collecting your rental car at the other. Why spend billions getting across the Atlantic a bit quicker if it takes 2 hours to get through Customs/Immigration, and into your rental car?? Surely it's cheaper, and would affect more people, to cut down the time spent being fcked about in the 2 airports?? No??

Oh goody. Another toy for the .01% -Just what we all need.

Does anyone remember the UK hotol Jet. It could take off a plane and then enter near orbit on air breathing engines to do a loop, cutting travel time from the e.g. UK to long distance jumps by massive amounts of time

The first sentence of this script is so poorly formed and sounds even worse when spoke by a digital facsimile of Jared Harris. Didn't listen any further. So much junk on YT now.

The so-called "sonic boom" isn't a momentary event as it is often perceived by an individual standing on the surface of the earth. A supersonic aircraft makes noise. A lot of noise. But since it moves faster than the noise, it "drags" the noise behind it like a cone. That cone moves continuously along with the aircraft, passing over the land like a shadow or a wave. Every point on the surface of the earth beneath the flight path will be struck by the leading edge of this cone, sort of like a buoy bobbing in the ocean and struck by a moving wave. The force of this wave diminishes with the distance between the aircraft and the point where the wave strikes. The technology that Boom is developing is an attempt to make this dissipation occur more efficiently, so the wave is "softer" where it impacts the surface beneath the flight path. The hope is that this would create a path for Boom to be allowed to fly over mainland US and Europe at supersonic velocity, which Concorde was not allowed to do. But the main noise complaints about the Concord weren't sonic boom related. Most of them came from London, near Heathrow. To fly at supersonic velocities, you need giant, extremely powerful motors. Which are very loud. The Concord wasn't supersonic over London, but it was bloody loud because of its roaring engines. Boom is also working on quieting that part with more modern engine designs. In the end, though, all of that is lipstick on a pig. No matter what, supersonic flight drags a cone of concentrated sound pressure that strikes the earth with a certain force; and no matter what, getting to that speed requires giant, extremely powerful (and therefore extremely loud) motors. Furthermore, there is the cost. Supersonic flight consumes a LOT of fuel per mile. These aircraft can't be very large. The giant cost has to be amortized over the small number of seats in the plane. Each seat is going to be super expensive. Many air carriers nowadays are introducing super-luxury class accommodations in their long-range wide-body aircraft. Some are almost like small hotel suites. A wealthy traveler will have high-end options: (a) a cramped seat on a supersonic plane that gets you there about twice as fast as normal; or (b) a luxury space on a normal plane. I can't see how a supersonic plane can compete economically with the super-luxury market. I don't think there are that many flyers who would routinely choose speed over luxury. Keep in mind that small executive airlines also compete for this business. Modern executive jets have a range almost as long as a modern wide body. They fly at the same speeds as commercial, they offer super luxury accommodations, but in addition to all of that they can fly into/out of virtually any small airport anywhere. A rich guy in London can fly his family directly to Aspen. Etc. A supersonic plane can never offer that level of pinpoint convenience. A busy executive can use the aircraft as a workspace during the trip, which eliminates any benefit of the speed of supersonic.

No mention of Tupolev TU-144.

can cargo planes fly faster as staff is just cockpit and then cargo

Concorde was grounded because of the fatal crash, not mentioned in this video.

Wait-wait-wait....who's building this aircraft? ...Not BOEING, right?

The 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590 crash, didn't help Concorde much either.

So they have proven that they could reduce the boom to a thump, or they expect to do so?

How many carbon credits should be required to qualify to buy a supersonic flight ticket?

We need to spend billions of dollars so that 80 people can cut a couple hours off their intercontinental flying time.

This video contains so many inaccuracies they are not worth correcting

The AI voice over is certainly authorative and easy to listen to with the English upper class accent.

How about the energy consumption? Not even talking about green energy.

Why do we accept even the title of this piece when they clearly state the engine won’t even be ready until 2025? The title implies that overture will be flying in 2024. There is so much wrong with what I have heard about this new airplane. Even the graphics of overture show two completely different designs. I don’t know if I would drop a dime on this company.

I hope the UK and France ban it flying over their air space as the US did for the concord, which was the real reason why concord didn't last. Had it been able to fly supersonic to the west coast of US it would still be flying today.

Seems overkill to install such an advanced cockpit when the main cost is the supersonic capability and that risk metric plus fuel burn. Why not just an advanced private jet cockpit as offered currently. I would note that the first flight was essentially - it can fly like a normal jet and at normal altitudes. No sign it could get even close to near subsonic speeds much less supersonic at any altitude

I hope they actually use green fuel.

Alright, let's see it then.

I hope the jet doesn't go BOOOOM.

"this is promising"