Boom Supersonic is to use a cloud-based design tool owned by Dassault Systemes
The plane would be the first commercial plane to break the sound barrier since Concorde.Mock up photograpgh of Boom Aerospace's proposed supersonic airplane.A U.S. firm attempting to bring commercial supersonic air travel back will use a design package owned by a European aerospace giant.
In its press release, the aerospace start-up claimed the design tool would cut development time of its first prototype in half as well as improving the plane's build quality. If it reaches the production and certification stage, Overture would fly at a top speed of Mach 2.2, allowing journeys from New York to London in just over 3 hours and from Tokyo to San Francisco in 5 and a halfJoshua Krall, co-founder and VP of technology at Boom Supersonic said that the plane will "revolutionize long-haul commercial airline travel."
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