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Boom Supersonic's ambition to field a Mach 1.7 commercial airliner by 2029 has gained momentum as maintenance partner StandardAero agreed to test and assemble the airplane's Symphony engines at its Texas facility.
At the Farnborough Airshow, Boom revealed for the first time the aircraft's Honeywell Anthem avionics suite, which now incorporates Universal Avionics’ ClearVision enhanced flight vision system (EFVS). The system installed on the Overture will include Universal’s second-generation head-wearable device, SkyLens II, along with the EVS-5000 multispectral camera, connected switches, computer units, and the Aperture visual management system.
Speaking at the Farnborough Airshow Tuesday, Boom CEO Blake Scholl reiterated expectations that the Overture aircraft will gain certification and enter service by 2029. “We remain on track to having passengers in the air in five years’ time," said Scholl. "Passengers and airlines are hungry for supersonic flight...As we stand here at Farnborough in 2024, it's now been two decades since either Boeing or Airbus have launched an all-new airliner program, so we've stopped progressing—and in many ways, we've gone backwards,” he remarked.
