BOOM SUPERSONIC CEO REMAINS OPTIMISTIC

After losing engine partner Rolls-Royce in September 2022, Boom Technology (trade name Boom Supersonic), the Denverbased American company speaks about the perilously speculative business of bringing to market a supersonic civilian airliner, announced in December 2022 that it will partner with three aviation companies to develop and build engines for its proposed Overture Super Sonic Transport.

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Boom Supersonic executives disclosed their engine building plans during ceremony at North Carolina's Piedmont Triad International Airport (GSO), ostensibly the future site of the company's aircraft manufacturing operation. Boom has pledged to create 1,760 jobs in the Guilford County/ Greensboro area and invest US$500 million in the project through the end of the decade.

Boom founder and CEO Blake Scholl informed an audience gathered on the GSO terminal's upper concourse that his company would team with a consortium of three lesser-known aerospace concerns to design, produce and maintain a jet-engine capable of powering an economically viable, environmentally responsible SST. "Developing a supersonic engine specifically for Overture offers by far the best value proposition for our customers," Scholl remarked.