Frankfort, New York In a few years, will we be able to fly from London to Miami in just five hours? Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of the US company Boom, is convinced of it. Some airline managers obviously too. American Airlines recently ordered 20 jets of the planned supersonic aircraft Overture from Boom. United Airlines and Japan Airlines have also already placed orders there.
So is civil supersonic aviation about to make a comeback after Concorde died out in 2003? One thing is certain: Since American Airlines’ effective advertising announcement, the prospects that the boom jet will ever be mass-produced and take off have worsened rather than improved. After Boom’s engine partner Rolls-Royce left, the plane is missing the most important part: the engine. And that’s not the super-fast plane’s only problem.
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