Nothing seems to be holding back the ambitions of the American start-up Boom, which wants to relaunch supersonic flights by the end of this decade. Neither the Covid-19 crisis, nor the societal pressure exerted on aviation to decarbonize, nor the criticisms of the interest of developing an aircraft flying at Mach 1.7 (i.e. twice as fast as current airliners ) for wealthy customers, ready to pay 5000 dollars for a Paris-New York round trip. Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, launched this project in 2014, just over 10 years after the Concorde was discontinued. The CEO firmly believes that his jet, dubbed Overture, will be "
the first post-pandemic airliner
" that "
will usher in a new era of travel
".
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