After a nearly 20-year hiatus, supersonic passenger travel is about to make a comeback. One of the companies leading the charge is Boom Supersonic Inc. By the end of this decade, it plans to produce a 199-foot-long plane called Overture that will carry 65 to 88 passengers and fly at twice the speed of existing commercial jetliners.
Boom hopes to fill a void in the marketplace that has existed since the last Concorde flew in 2003. It recently unveiled a one-third scale demonstrator dubbed the XB-1 “Baby Boom” that will begin test flights later this year.