The aeroplane is called XB-1 but nicknamed the “Baby Boom” and is set to be “the fastest civil aircraft ever made”, according to Boom.
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The 40-seater aircraft, Boom is being built by former Amazon executive Blake Scholl to fly from London to
New York in three and a half hours with a ticket costing $5,000 (£3,540) Scholl said about 500 routes fit the craft's market, including a five-hour trip from San Francisco to Tokyo and a six-hour flight from Los Angeles to Sydney.
To cut flight time, Boom's plane will cruise at 60,000 feet, where passengers will be able to see the curvature of the earth, while going 2.6 times faster than other passenger planes.
The Boom jet is designed to be greener and more economical than Concorde. It will also cause less noise when it breaks the sound barrier, which is vital to future success because supersonic flight is actually banned over the United States due to the din caused by sonic booms.
The XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator will fly with three General Electric J85-21 (non-afterburning; proprietary variable-geometry intake and exhaust) engines, plus avionics from Honeywell, carbon fibre parts supplied by Tencate, and composite structures fabricated by Blue Force in North Carolina. Final assembly and vehicle integration are taking place in Boom’s facility at Centennial Airport in Colorado.
Virgin Galactic’s manufacturing and the Spaceship Company will work together to provide engineering, manufacturing services, along with flight test support.
XB-1 ultrasonic could fly at a speed 4.5 times higher than the sound and will be three times faster than the mythical Concorde, which until the end of 2003 was used for passenger transport. In addition, the revolutionary aircraft can travel more than 5,500 kilometers per hour and will have to fly through specially designated air corridors at an altitude of 30.5 kilometers, while most aircraft fly lower.
The first flight of the XB-1 – dubbed Baby Boom – is planned for late 2017. According to Boom Technology, subsonic flight test will be conducted east of Denver whilst supersonic test flights will be conducted near Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California, in partnership with Virgin Galactic’s The Spaceship Company.