Boom XB-1 Primed For Flight Test After Ground Evaluation Final Phase

Boom XB-1
Boom has completed 75% of XB-1 preflight tests.
Credit: Boom Supersonic
Just over two months after announcing Greensboro, North Carolina, as the future production site for its Overture airliner, supersonic transport developer Boom is building up for initial taxi tests of the XB-1 one-third-scale demonstrator at its Centennial, Colorado, facility. “We have basically...
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