Boom Supersonic: Flight Testing the XB-1
Fighter Pilot Podcast
Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, Retired U.S. Air Force Fighter Test Pilot
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
In the early 2000s, Tesla upended the automotive industry with its ground-breaking electric vehicles and recharging network. Twenty years later, Boom Supersonic is attempting to do the same in the airline industry—will it work?
On this episode, Tristan Brandenberg and Nick Sheryka join guest host Ken Katz to discuss Boom Supersonic's ambitious initiative to return supersonic airline travel, including creating all-new aircraft, engines, and supporting network. That begins with flight testing the one-off XB-1 technology demonstrator to prove supersonic overland travel can be nonintrusive to the underlying populace.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. Before we get to this week's episode, I want to introduce an EA18G growler pilot, |
| 0:06.0 | Zach Mendel. Hello, Zohan. Hi, Jello. Hey, so after leaving active duty a couple years ago, |
| 0:11.6 | you became a financial advisor for Forum Financial Management LP. Is that correct? That's right. |
| 0:17.6 | While I still enjoy flood instructing in the reserves in Woodby Island, |
| 0:25.6 | my 9 to 5 these days is financial advising. At foreign financial, I specialize in helping service members, veterans, and their families with long-term financial planning. I'm a fiduciary, |
| 0:30.3 | which means I'm required to act in my client's best interests and I'm not peddling any |
| 0:33.8 | particular product. I help my client set financial goals and take the necessary |
| 0:37.6 | steps to reach them. Why is it important to set financial goals? So you enjoy the freedom to live |
| 0:42.9 | the type of life you want to live, whether that's your lay vacations, buying a home, putting your |
| 0:47.4 | children through college or having a comfortable retirement. Military service comes with some great |
| 0:51.6 | financial benefits, like the TSP, the A loans, the GI Bill, |
| 0:55.1 | and so many more. You just have to know how to utilize them. |
| 0:58.0 | Well, while we can figure some things out on your own, what I hear you saying is it's never a bad |
| 1:01.9 | idea to have a coach or a mentor in such pursuits. For example, if I wanted to get in shape, |
| 1:06.2 | I might go get a personal trainer. Bingo. So how can listeners learn more? I would be thrilled to help Fighter Pilot podcast listeners navigate military benefits |
| 1:14.6 | and plan for their financial future Jello. |
| 1:16.9 | They can email me, Z Mendel, that's Z, M-I-N-D-E-L, at Forum Financial.com. |
| 1:24.1 | Call or text me, 630-474-3599. That's 630-30 4743599 that's 630 4743599 and for more information visit our website |
| 1:33.2 | forumfinancial.com look for the links in the show notes well awesome thanks for joining us oh hey you're |
| 1:39.1 | welcome jello thank you we didn't set out to make a supersonic airplane. |
| 1:46.0 | What we want to do is move people faster, get to our destination faster. |
| 1:50.5 | In order to go faster, we have to transition through that regime where the atmosphere just behaves differently. |
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