Boom Supersonic is working hard to upend the status quo in commercial flight with its Overture airliner — a supersonic craft that will be propelled by brand-new engines the company just revealed. Building from scratch shows that Boom is doubling down on setting itself apart from the rest of the industry.
Building a new aircraft is hard work, and one tough decision is which parts you want to source off the shelf, customize, or design yourself. Why reinvent the flap system if you can buy one that works perfectly well?
But in the case of Boom, they are attempting to build “an economically and environmentally sustainable supersonic airplane—a combination unattainable with the current constraints of derivative engines and industry norms,” as CEO and founder Blake Scholl put it in a news release. If you want to leapfrog your competition, you can’...
