Boom Supersonic has secured one major public sales order for its Superpower 42 MW natural gas turbines aimed at AI data centers. They will sell 29 units totaling 1.21 GW from launch customer Crusoe (announced December 9, 2025), creating a $1.25 billion backlog. Boom closed a $300 million funding round led by Darsana Capital Partners …
Boom Supersonic has completed its supersonic passenger plane factory, is flying a supersonic demonstrator plane and will have a new upgraded engine core by late 2025. They have over a total of over $700 million in funding. They are targeting 2030 for operation of a Mach 1.7 supersonic passenger jet. Current plan is only fly …
The Boom XB-1 Baby Boom is a one-third-scale trijet supersonic demonstrator designed by Boom Technology as part of development of the Boom Overture supersonic transport airliner. It is powered by three General Electric J85s, it is planned to maintain Mach 2.2, with over 1,000 nautical miles. The XB-1 took its first flight on March 22, …
Exosonic is startup developing supersonic UAVs to support the aerial target, collaborative combat aircraft, and adversary air training missions for both government and commercial customers. Exosonic designed, manufactured, and brought the EX-3M to flight test in only nine months. They useed rapid iteration of the aircraft design, diversifying the supply chain, and maintaining the assembly …
Lockheed has made experimental X-59 plane to test ways to quiet the sonic boom of future commercial supersonic planes. What's the X-59 been up to recently? We're glad you asked. 👇 We moved the aircraft to a run stall on the flight line for further ground testing, including vibration testing. It's aiming to quiet the …
There are many companies working to develop commercial supersonic planes. There is Boom Technology which has raised $241 million and has may pre-orders from potential customers. United Airlines agreed to purchase 15 Boom Overture aircraft with an option to buy 35 more. They are currently scheduled to begin servicing passengers in 2029. Nextbigfuture has been …
On 2014, Nextbigfuture covered Elon Musk describing his belief that an electric supersonic vertical take-off passenger jet could be built. Elon Musk talked about the supersonic electric passenger VTOL plane in an interview with Joe Rogan. Other have patented VTOL passenger plane designs. Better batteries and new designs could make these planes work There is …
According to JetNet (reported in Knight Frank’s 2017 Wealth report), within the largest 10 markets for private aviation there are around 17,000 (16,854) privately owned aircraft registered. The US has 75% of private jet ownership amongst the top 10 markets. US private jets has grown 34% from 2006 to 2016 to reach 12,717. Boom Supersonic …
Currently you can fly from NY to London in just over 5 hours if you get lucky with tailwinds in a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Around 2023-2025 there will be several options for $5,000-30,000 supersonic flights for the top 1% to travel in 2.5 to 3 hours from NY to London and about 500 other routes. …
Japan Airlines has made a $10 million investment and pre-order of 20 Boom supersonic passenger jets. JAL is helping Boom deliver something further: a mainstream supersonic airliner, which is practical, reliable, and economic. Their decades of experience as a world-class operator, expertise in everything from passenger experience to safety to technical operations will help us …
Early Saturday morning Oct 07, 2017, Spike Aerospace successfully test flew the subsonic subscale SX-1.2 demonstrator aircraft for the first time. The jet is an early unmanned prototype of the company’s 18 passenger S-512 Quiet Supersonic Jet. The SX-1.2 test flights proved that the aerodynamic design of the aircraft is valid and provided a tremendous …