On this episode of Av Talk, we welcome aerospace journalists John Walton and John Ostauer to discuss United Airlines order for Booms' supersonic overture jet and the likelihood of the aircraft ever entering service.

Hello and welcome to episode 115 of Avtoc. I am E.M.

Petchnick here as always with Jason Rubinowitz and we have a special episode, not just with one special guest, but with two special guests, both named John, but spelled differently.

So that's how we tell them apart, although in audio format that's going to be tricky.

Well, luckily they have different accents.

Joining us this episode are John Ostrower, the editor-in-chief of the Air Current, the kind of preeminent industry publication as it has become and also joining us is

aerospace journalist extraordinary, John Walton.

Welcome Johns.

Thank you.

I feel like we're about to be booked.

That's a different podcast.

So you gentlemen have graciously agreed to join us to pick apart and help us understand what the big news was last week.

So to kind of catch everything up and we'll give the headline view without any editorializing the first time through.

United Airlines placed an order, asterisk, for a supersonic aircraft,

asteris, produced by Boom Supersonic

that will operate hopefully sometime in the middle of 2020 or carry passengers by 2029 and the airline and the

Air Framework will work together to accelerate the production of greater supplies of sustainable aviation

fuel because the aircraft is designed to be powered completely by sustainable

aviation fuel. If I put me asterisk halfway through that, right?

Yeah, so a bit of those qualifications, before United actually takes any of these aircraft, it has to meet three key points.

United wants it to meet its, I'm quoting here, demanding safety

requirements. The second point is it must also meet United's operational requirements and

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