SONIC (boom)

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Here’s one from the vault… Hard to believe it, but it’s been twenty years since the Concorde SST (SuperSonic Transport) was permanently retired. It was a remarkable machine that plied the transatlantic trade at twice the speed of sound, the tooth-jarring sonic boom footprint limited to over-water flight. But the real promise of supersonic travel — Los Angeles to New York in a little over two hours, for example — in has never been practical due to that noise footprint. Until Now. Meet the ingeniously designed OVERTURE with its sonic THUMP, manufactured by Boom Technology of Denver, Colorado Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0	Well, there was one brief shining moment when I was growing up as a kid where progress meant things like going faster, higher, and further rather than going backwards and checking people's skin color and trying to determine whether or not they were qualified for a job.
0:15.7	We talked a few about some of these scrappy startup companies.
0:19.8	One of them would be SpaceX, which has managed to do
0:22.4	rather well for itself. We did a show on a company called Anderil, kind of a mom and pop defense
0:27.1	program that started not too long ago. And today I'd like to talk about a company called Boom
0:32.7	Aerospace. And I'm Bill Whittlehigh, everybody, with Steve Green and Scott.
0:37.4	Boom Aerospace is a privately funded aerospace company that is determined to build and I'm Bill Whittlehigh, everybody, with Steve Green and Scott Ott.
0:42.7	Boom Aerospace is a privately funded aerospace company that is determined to build another SST supersonic transport. We've come a long way since the, I guess, Concord was probably
0:48.2	designed in the 70s, I would say, somewhere along there. The problem with supersonic transport,
0:53.7	they're very nice going over the ocean, but they
0:56.2	are expensive, and obviously most of the flights that most people take are domestic flights,
1:00.6	and you just can't have that thunder clap just scaring the cattle every, you know, seven or eight
1:05.6	minutes as these supersonic aircraft go flying over the country.
1:13.6	Boom has been able to use some very advanced aerodynamics to take the sonic boom down to a sonic thud, something that's probably manageable.
1:19.6	But they're running into a problem, and it's a political problem. And I want to read to you a statement
1:25.9	from the president of Boom Aerospace, the founder,
1:30.0	because to me this is exactly what the future used to sound like, and forgive me for giving
1:34.0	this to you in full, but it really merits it before we start talking about it.
1:38.4	Founder of the company seeking to build a successor to Concord has hit back at what he
1:42.2	called flight-shaming activists who are demanding an end to mass air travel.
1:47.0	Blake Shoal of Boom Aerospace said that the demand to cut back on flights for the sake of limiting CO2 emissions is, quote, depressing, unquote.
1:56.0	He said, there are some people who look at this and say well i guess we should have less things we should use
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