Boom Supersonic
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Boom Supersonic
@boomsupersonic
Building the world's fastest airliner, Overture — optimized for speed, safety, and sustainability.
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@bscholl, CEO of @boomsupersonic accepted the 2026 AIAA Reed Aeronautics Award at #AIAAAviation ✈️️ and shared behind-the-scenes on XB-1, solving the sonic boom & the return of supersonic flight. After the stage: meeting future aerospace engineers at the Student Lounge 🤝
- Boom Supersonic repostedRapid iteration is the key for building breakthrough airplanes and engines. My keynote this morning @aiaa has new details on how Boom is using custom design tools and digital manufacturing to accelerate engine development
- Boom Supersonic repostedIt takes 400 companies >2 years to build a Patriot missile. Perhaps this is why USA suddenly gave up in Iran. Incompetent manufacturing will cause us to lose future wars too. Boom is building vertically integrated factories that can do in 24h what otherwise takes years. 🧵
- Boom Supersonic repostedBuild Supersonic Ep 3: a tour of the fully-assembled Symphony high pressure turbine and deep-dive our 3D-printed HPT blades
00:00 - Boom Supersonic repostedAmerican and United: the two US airlines committed both to supersonic flight and @Starlink wifi (Reminder: the XB-1 supersonic flight featured the first supersonic air-to-air livestream. Starlink works great even at high Mach numbers)
- Boom Supersonic repostedSmall modular turbines—like our 42MW Superpower unit—make it easy for datacenters to make their own power, so they don't need to pull from the grid and affect others' power costs.🇺🇸 Boom Supersonic just stuffed a 42-megawatt power turbine inside a shipping container. Called "Superpower," it runs in extreme heat with no water cooling needed and can be deployed anywhere. Boom just made it portable.
Usually, reducing part count accelerates manufacturing. But not always. In this episode of Build Supersonic, @bscholl and Boom's head of manufacturing Nate Hepler show how Build Engineers actually added parts to make our engine more buildable.
00:00- Boom Supersonic repostedBy popular account, jet engine vanes are nearly impossible to make. It took some iteration, and we are now having success machining stage 1/2 variable guide vanes out of 17-4 stainless steel—with exceptionally tight tolerances.Real magic is happening at Boom as we build a supersonic engine from raw materials. We’re launching “Build Supersonic,” a new series to pull back the curtain on the shop floor. In Ep 1, we look at Symphony hardware – how we break things, learn, and iterate to move fast. What do
00:00 - Real magic is happening at Boom as we build a supersonic engine from raw materials. We’re launching “Build Supersonic,” a new series to pull back the curtain on the shop floor. In Ep 1, we look at Symphony hardware – how we break things, learn, and iterate to move fast. What do00:00
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We have the first speaker lineup for the first event of SF Deep Tech Week 2026. It's about hardware and manufacturing. There's a few T of future enterprise value here. Recognize anyone? @bscholl @EdwardMehr @jordannoone @jimbelosic @aphysicist
