{"id":61905,"date":"2017-06-23T09:28:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T07:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=61905"},"modified":"2022-08-10T14:56:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T12:56:06","slug":"concorde-supersonic-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/concorde-supersonic-aircraft","title":{"rendered":"The new supersonic baby boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2003, the <strong>Concorde<\/strong> was making its last flight. Too expensive, too fuel-hungry... In short, <em>has been<\/em> at a time of <strong>superjumbos like the A380<\/strong> despite its eminently glamorous side. Twenty years on, will supersonic aircraft come back into fashion? That's what <strong>Boom Technology<\/strong> with its <strong>X-B1 aircraft project<\/strong>. Its first test flight is due to take place next year in Denver, before an <strong>effective launch in 2023<\/strong>. Blake Scholl, CEO of the American company, took advantage of the <strong>Paris Air Show<\/strong> to reveal that 76 aircraft have been booked by five airlines. If their names remain secret, <strong>Virgin Galactic<\/strong> officially announced its interest in acquiring around ten aircraft. \"<em>As an innovator in the space sector, the decision to work with Boom was an easy one.<\/em>\"explained <strong>Richard Branson<\/strong>its emblematic CEO.<\/p>\n    <style>\n        div.link-block {\n            margin: 1em;\n            margin-left: 2px;\n            font-weight: bold;\n            padding: 1em;\n            position: relative;\n            border-top: 1px solid #cecece;\n            border-bottom: 1px solid #cecece;\n            font-size: 1.15rem;\n        } \n        div.link-block::before {\n            display: block;\n            content: '';\n            position: absolute;\n            top: 0.5em;\n            bottom: 0.5em;\n            left: -2px;\n            background-color: #a91c2c;\n            border-radius: 2.5px;\n            width: 5px;\n        }\n        div.link-block > a {\n            text-decoration: none;\n            border-bottom: none;\n            color: black;\n            font-family: 'Roboto', Arial, sans-serif;\n        }\n        div.link-block > a:hover {\n            text-decoration: underline;\n            border-bottom: none;\n            color: black;\n        }\n        @media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {\n            div.link-block {\n                padding: 0.7em;\n            }\n        }\n    <\/style>\n    <div class=\"link-block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/fast-sustainable-future-aircraft\">Read also: Plane of the future: faster, more sustainable<\/a><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61909\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61909\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Boom-Technology-interior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-61909 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Boom-Technology-interior.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Boom-Technology-interior.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Boom-Technology-interior-300x218-derived.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Boom-Technology-interior-324x235-derived.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boom Technology's project includes 55 business seats for optimised occupancy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How could Boom Technology succeed where Concorde failed? Able to fly at <strong>Mach 2.2<\/strong>the all-business class aircraft <strong>55 passengers<\/strong>the equivalent of a standard business cabin. \"<em>One of Concorde's problems was that it offered more seats than it could fill at the expected price.<\/em>\"explains Boom Technology. The X-B1's business model is based on <strong>optimised filling and controlled operating costs<\/strong> for airlines and 'reasonable' prices for travellers. <strong>Paris-New York in 3h30<\/strong>San Francisco-Tokyo in 5h30... It's clear that supersonic flights are still the stuff of dreams!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supersonic aircraft are back in the spotlight. At the Paris Air Show, the CEO of Boom Technology announced that his X-B1 project had already attracted five airlines, with an order for 76 aircraft.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":61907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[131],"type-darticle":[],"n_magazine":[],"class_list":["post-61905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerien","tag-compagnies-aeriennes","vapo-free"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nouveau baby-boom des avions supersoniques, successeurs du Concorde<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Les avions supersoniques reviennent sur le devant de la sc\u00e8ne. 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