Supersonic Flight - What Does The Future Hold?

Plans for supersonic commercial aircraft picked up in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In the United States, Boeing was working on the 2707, while Lockheed was working on the L-2000. Russia had developed and built the Tupolev Tu-144, which first flew just before Concorde.
Since then, leading aircraft manufacturers like Airbus and Boeing have stuck to traditional, subsonic jets, favoring high passenger volume and fuel efficiency over speed.
However, this could all change within the next ten years. New innovations in design, manufacturing, and noise-reduction technology have made supersonic travel a little more appealing than it was twenty or thirty years ago.
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Aerion • AS2 Engineering Oct. 2017
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Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst • Quiet Supersonic X-Plane
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[@fauzirahman3285]

"Boom" is a name that doesn't instill confidence in me but they do have a sweet logo that reminds me of the Rebels.

[@dishankkathuria6119]

There's a lot of stuff thats iffy here. Start with the hands on prototype(XB-1). Throughout the launch video not a single person touched the aircraft, went inside the cabin etc. If I had a company and we rolled out our first aircraft, I would be all over it. There are some shots that look so much like CGI effects(especially the rollout part). This company tbh looks like another scam because they never mentioned low boom supersonic plane which is the whole point of the next gen supersonic planes. There's like so many loose ends that they didn't talk about in that launch video. So I understand the skepticism

[@mrrolandlawrence]

boom looks like the only real contender. the others inc beardy branson are nothing but supersonic gulfstream private jets with < 20 people.

[@wh2960]

concorde: inhales fuel: bye

[@ant2312]

well it's the Boom one thats the best of them

[@Blooga_]

The Supersonic airliner Aerion was meant to fly for the first time in 2019

[@liam6nugget]

I’m still very skeptical about the environmental claims on these planes as we don’t know what the full impacts of pollution at high altitudes. Blindly trusting net-zero CO2 technologies such as biofuels in high altitude situations is risky, and further research needs to be undertaken before we start pouring more carbon into the upper atmosphere with less efficient supersonic jets.

[@DomDOMT]

What we do know is that boom is using engines just like normal DC9s (Mid Bypass Engine in the works with collabs), with specially designed intakes. Unlike normal jets.

[@ickyficky]

That Boom's "Halfcorde" looks neat=)

[@totallysquidy4319]

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[@Apocrypha_Darkbane]

Boom looks more Aesthetically pleasing with the placement of the engines

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[@pendolinofan643]

Yes your correct

[@defender2699]

Absolutely Correct!

[@sebastianbernabe3800]

Where did the malaysia airlines boeing 777 disappear. Thats probably the only question they can't answer

[@zulfiqaralikhurrum6911]

@@sebastianbernabe3800 oh yea bro mh370 is total stealth

[@itsnaveenn]

Yes Correct💯💯

[@corbinpeacock8722]

I'm interested in seeing how Boom will make their aircraft affordable to fly. The Concorde tried that in the beginning of its life, but couldn't quite meet operation costs. It'll be really cool to see how they cut down operation costs.

[@mjc8281]

I always think its worth looking at the Convair 880-990 projects to see how unlikely high speed commercial travel is likely to become, in many respects its a much more relevant example of the problems you face than Concorde which was a unique collaboration

[@mrman0-095]

Yes! I love these videos related to Concorde!

[@Ananth8193]

Very nice video 👍👍👍👍👍

[@riliryrimaddyvia9630]

Just imagine if amarica actually won the supersonic race but bans it fr flying

[@feivelwilliamaudiestevianto]

Well it's tragic (F) to pay respects

[@Mike5890Aviation]

The Boom Overmature. Nothing can beat the concorde.

[@-The_Phantom]

Imagine a supersonic airliner in the Microsoft flight simulator, that would be extremely awesome.

[@coca-colayes1958]

That was great , I’m over videos of the A380 already

[@J__C_]

Most probably supersonics would be used primarily by Govts( for Prez, PM, Ministers and high level bureaucracy), business travelers and critical cargo transport (like med. stuff, organs, disaster relief stuff, etc)

[@TrainerAQ]

We will never see another supersonic airliner, unless something new, innovative and game changing happens in our lifetime.

[@user-zz6iv2ou6f]

Technology is one thing. Economics is quite another.

[@curious5887]

For supersonic travel is quite confident in my opinion and i take to fly in boom aircraft

[@peterellis4982]

Boom has the Wright concept 55 passengers which will keep the ticket cost down to a realistic price for most people to use as a treat if not being paid by business travel

[@3sxope417]

Supersonic ❤️❤️

[@boscafeng2731]

Supersonic plane can be the future plane

[@ethansaviation2672]

Far future for airliners

[@gooner72]

The Tupolov 144 may have been the first to fly but........ it was also the first to crash and burn and it was also the first one to be cancelled for good. Concorde was miles better than the Russia offering because......it worked!

[@alhdgysz]

I prefer the boom

[@nillojr1]

Eu também prefiro o avião Boom Overture

[@Jet-Pack]

The sonic boom is not created when the sound barrier is broken! It is audible whenever a supersonic jet passes above you and it does not matter where it broke the sound barrier...

[@christoohunders5316]

The Quesst reminds me of the Espadon in Blake & Mortimer's Jacobs comics

[@pietrooliani3251]

to be honest i really like the as 2 but i don't like the newer iteration of the design on the other hand the boom overture looks a lot nicer

[@tenzinnyinjhe2715]

A video on 777x please !

[@AussieGunzel]

Supersonic needs to happen again, a lot of people I know including myself would prefer to get the flight over and done with even if it means paying more. What's the point of just being stuck in a slow aircraft when you could spend more hours at the destination.

[@itstomatogear6806]

Dear Concorde you will be missed.😢

[@gooner72]

"As of now, they've raised £132 million in funding"....... in the aviation industry, that is absolute peanuts, they'll need to get to billions to get anywhere.

[@AO-ow6tt]

Russia's Tu-160 Blackjack could be used a platform for testing a prototype of a supersonic airliner with low and hi speed characteristics.

[@corbinpeacock8722]

The x-59 looks like something straight out of ace combat

[@djangodenman4984]

virgin galactic, JFK to LHR in around 2 hours would be groundbreaking

[@raktimbiswas2000]

The supersonic jet by Aerion seems great! Will be looking forward to it!

[@huwkelvinmorgan3575]

a rebuild using modern materials of concord would be a world beater due to the fact it can hold 100 passengers per flight giving it the edge in profits over all of there's planes thus more profits equal more planes equals more profits equals more planes and so on it would expand faster and be more profitable quicker ticket prices would be in the region of the average person and not just first class . think seats per flight and lower ticket price not just speed and you have your winner.

[@justincourt830]

I wish airbus would bring back the Concorde and try to update some of the technology

[@HavokTheorem]

Woah. 1 view. Last time I came this early it was to a Lonely Island video.

[@ijulesy]

Ok, why would I care?

[@HavokTheorem]

@@ijulesy You don't have to. The comments section is entirely optional. Would you rather read that I enjoyed the video?

[@gunrir924]

Could u talk about md80

[@ludwigtails]

Aviation: wants to make a supersonic jet COVID-19: yea...I don’t think so

[@Warp__]

They still could do testing

[@ludwigtails]

Warp Yea....

[@eamonahern7495]

The body of that Aerion concept looks very impractical for takeoff and landing. The Boom and Virgin Galactic concepts look much more plausible.

[@KAMAL_2203]

I guess it take 2 more year for the company to even launch the plane 🛩

[@overbank56]

What about an SST that carries more than 350 passengers & does Mach 2.5?

[@recento]

This is gud

[@ant2312]

so that AS2 only makes Mach 1.4, they needed to be doing Mach 2 at least

[@christoohunders5316]

Depends on IFE contents !

[@Warp__]

My supersonic plane that I made in ksp can reach Mach 3.6

[@aaarayanabdulkareem8f764]

Who fley on the Concorde like to say yes

[@REIBODERA]

Boom is my favorite, the airplane has more seats

[@deltabeta5527]

History is just going to repeat itself

[@bad19453]

probably the one that looks like Concorde ......if i can afford it.

[@kg9032]

BOOM SUPERSONIC AIRLINES CUZ I OWN IT K.G.LUV COLORADO 🍻

[@christianthomas6663]

“This could all change in the next ten years” Nek minnit - Covid!

[@geraldbeasley]

Virgin Gilantic Concorde my preference deign looks, speed

[@diptikarmarkar4680]

Shout out please

[@Booyaka9000]

I'm sure Aerion seems like a fitting company for the US right now (or at least 1/3 of it), but I doubt they'll see much business in Germany or Israel...

[@olekkuvppl]

And somewhere in the distance is SpaceX with mach25 capable starship that might leap above all these competitors 10-20 years down the line

[@suddhojitgon5929]

I would love to travel on the Virgin Galactic plane as this will be the fastest at mach 3.

[@1mxtp]

Electric taxiing?

[@sunspot42]

I can’t see how any of these technologies would compete with the hyperloop. International travel over water is only a small fraction of all travel. Something like the hyperloop would crush travel times on far more heavily trafficked routes.

[@MrMattumbo]

The hyperloop is a boondoggle, the cost to build vacuum tubes hundreds, let alone thousands, of miles long is unfeasible. Servicing and maintaining those tubes is yet another enormous cost on top. Especially through the ocean... God help anyone riding in one if a leak springs, let alone an explosive compression.

[@sunspot42]

MrMattumbo Supersonic planes are also a boondoggle. The cost to build fuel efficient supersonic planes that mitigate the sonic boom and can fly over land is unfeasible. Servicing and maintaining those planes is yet another enormous cost on top. God help anyone riding in one of a leak springs, let alone an explosive compression. 🤣

[@filledwithvariousknowledge1065]

My money is for Boom. Richard Branson should first save his airline before getting involved in this

[@ianhollands1641]

I wouldn't invest my hard earned in any of them. Making them even more pointy than Concord might reduce sonic boom but won't eliminate it. Cost per seat-mile will always be many times more than the sub-sonics.

[@bozidarskobalj3166]

true air boom looks like mars lander and if you do raotational front flaps has some slick tech and lets say increase side tread to be more scfi as stiffer and have rotational cocpit as escape pod, it would do fine also with virgin supersonic but I would gave su 57 front movable flaps and also front movable flaps to keep scfi look as wings are not new and sabre engine for 3 mach since they like star trek is bit more pirce also passenger must be more then like 22-32 people atleast since idea off heavy altitude is kind scif flight anyway incorporated tech I would also a a mig air brakes kind a blue line has first upper brake isi oposite then twin back for glide brake purpose a easy rotational as to catch down flow wind stream, basicly is a high tech stream superjet and also 1/3 larger front tail for manta or mantis stability as know how which virgin liek beside e space comercial travel

[@Dexter037S4]

"XB-1" isn't an airliner. the XB moniker is used for USAF funded Bombers.

[@riliryrimaddyvia9630]

I thought the future is a 100 seater plane with a long range....I made that concept

[@JuraimyAirlineManager]

bruh

[@jackiecs8190]

yeah, you and everybody else, dude

[@meauxjeaux431]

JUST 12 passengers ?

[@asiana7776]

Tupolev Tu-444 cause only Tupolev have experience in Passenger Supersonic planes.

[@J__C_]

With an increasing potential for Hyperloop, I think this new found craze for Supersonics is just a fad. Moreover many Asian countries (which is the worlds fastest growing aviation market) are more interested in high speed rail.

[@Jack-sf9zo]

Well yes hyperloop and high speed rail are useful for land travel at high speed, but you cant cross an ocean in 3 hours on those and I feel like most people would prefer a longer train ride that flight si ce on a train your at least not cramed in for 8 hours, supersonic at least allowes for being cramed in for 3 hours or less depending on what routes are possible

[@Letsgo-fi3fe]

Why don't the French and the British just build the concorde again, since technology is now more efficient and complex

[@shrimpflea]

Because It will cost an enormous amount of money and no one will buy it...especially these days. And they still haven't solved many of the same problems even with the newer tech.

[@prorobo]

13 min of pipe dreams. None of these will see beyond the prototype phase.

[@rasulakule5216]

I hope all the supersonic brands ↔️ Elon Musk for RnD on aerospace battery and composite material technology.

[@ant2312]

its NOT "The" Concorde, it's just 'Concorde'

[@ThePowerofJames]

he literally refers to it as just Concorde 3 seconds later, and multiple times. The "the" doesnt hurt anything or detract from a well done video, chill.

[@kingssuck06]

Oh look at you criticizing grammar, according to you that means you have no other argument of anything constructive to offer

[@13soxs]

You would never hear the Boom, above the constant gun fire going on in america!

[@VexifyGaming]

N

[@stumacgregor2548]

Put enough commercial breaks in your video? 🤦‍♂️

[@shrimpflea]

Boom is a terrible name considering what they are trying to accomplish.

[@paulmoffat9306]

Wont happen - Jets flying at supersonic speeds are prohibited flight at those speeds over populated areas, and so are limited to sparse areas (Russia Siberia) and oceans, unless major breakthroughs are made in sound reduction. Also, economics plays a huge part - those aircraft will be very expensive to design, build and operate, so they must carry a lot or the ticket price will only attract the very rich. Goodby business flying at those prices. Same thing applies to SoaceX's Starship proposal - with only 100 or so seats, each ticket would be $75K per flight just for the fuel cost!

[@therealgadielsepulveda]

*nobody likes noise* F1 fans: haha engine goes vroom

[@john2311871]

What the world really needs is full disclosure on what is already out there as far as technology is concerned. All of Nikola Tesla's inventions for example, using scalar energy to create free energy without the need of combustion engines. Then who knows what other technology there is that has been kept from society, quantum physics holds a lot of answers.

[@jeff90210]

Pshhhhh my simpleplanes supersonic plane can reach mach 200

[@stuartlee6622]

Aereon is OUT!

[@letsseeif]

Not going be successful but maybe a few rich may get some use from the above. Concorde lessons NOT learnt!. ETOPS will keep on keeping on & real speed for ordinary mortals will have to wait until 'LEOVs' (Low Earth Orbit Vehicles) actually work on a routine basis. And on a 'scientific/religious controversial basis',' Teleporting' is the ultimate answer, but only if and when it actually works.

[@georgeskourgias2196]

What the heck is Branson doing? Why invest in boom when you're making your own Supersonic jet 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@krullenbos94]

Don't bet on just one horse mate.

[@olekkuvppl]

Attempting to show that Virgin Galactic has anything up their sleeve after past 15 years of total failure in suborbital market

[@Gameflyer001]

For the same reason that Lockheed is also investing in one of those projects while building their own experimental model; enabling the technology transfer between the projects should one end up successful.

[@henrykaung9064]

Hypersonic?

[@Jack-sf9zo]

I think we need to get back into supersonic before w e move on to commercial hypersonic I mean Concorde flew at mack 2 so with no current commercial planes getting close to that speed it will take a while before we get to commercial mack 5 travel

[@AshrakAhmed]

Totally impractical, environmentally harmful bragging rights for super rich and KZbin vloggers! Nothing here to see for us cattle class passengers.

[@chrismv102]

I'm from Missouri. These prototypes aren't even real.