Boom Supersonic teams up with Kratos
2022.12.13 06:35
Boom Supersonic teams up with Kratos
Budrigannews.com – On Tuesday, Boom Supersonic laid out its plans to collaborate with a Kratos Defense (NASDAQ:) unit to create an engine for its jets. The U.S. startup had few options when legacy civil engine manufacturers turned down Security Solutions.
The announcement, which also mentioned agreements with GE Additive and StandardAero, the maintenance, repair, and overhaul company, did not include any financial information about Boom, the newest competitor from the United States that wants to bring back supersonic flight.
According to Boom CEO Blake Scholl, a former Amazon executive who founded the company in 2014, Florida Turbine Technologies will design the Overture jet’s engines and construct “some of the first engines.”
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General Electric, makers of engines (NYSE:), EPA: Safran The Rolls-Royce likewise Honeywell International Inc. had stated that they had no immediate plans to develop civil supersonic engines, putting the Overture jet’s future in doubt.
Overture, a supersonic airliner with 65 to 88 seats priced at business class fares at first, would cut the amount of time it takes to fly across the Atlantic to three and a half hours.
After completing purchase agreements with airlines such as American Airlines (NASDAQ:), the Denver-based Boom company made headlines this year. likewise United Airlines
