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

Guy Norris Joe Anselmo April 15, 2022
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...
Guy Norris

Guy is a Senior Editor for Aviation Week, covering technology and propulsion. He is based in Colorado Springs.

Joe Anselmo

Joe Anselmo has been Editorial Director of the Aviation Week Network and Editor-in-Chief of Aviation Week & Space Technology since 2013. Based in Washington, D.C., he directs a team of more than two dozen aerospace journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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