Boom Supersonic has its sights firmly set on the return of supersonic civilian air travel with the development of Overture, its 55-75 passenger, Mach 2.2 commercial airliner. As a run-up to the production model, the company has been making steady progress towards its scheduled 2020 flight testing of the 1/3 scale proof of concept called XB-1. The objectives behind development of the XB-1 are more than just real-world flight testing of this highly sophisticated aircraft, involving the latest materials and technologies. The XB-1 build is helping to determine best practices in manufacturing, quality verification, bench testing, assembly guidance, process control, and team development, all with the goal of informing the development of Overture. In the process, Boom has broken through the barrier of traditional thinking, creating model-based measurement and inspection techniques that are improving quality, increasing their speed to market and reducing cost.
When you are designing and building a commercial aircraft intended to fly Mach 2.2, or roughly 1,459 MPH, precision and quality verification of every part is critical. The culture at Boom perpetuates a can-do attitude grounded in thoughtful design, aerospace experience, and a relentless pursuit of quality. These quality and innovation tenets engrained in the Boom brand drives the project development team to think differently about how they approach inspection and measurement, not only across the Boom enterprise, but throughout their supply chain as well.