The aviation startup intends to produce its supersonic passenger aircraft, Overture, at a new facility, but is setting an ambitious timeline.
Booms says the"Overture Superfactory" could bring a value of more than $32 billion to the region in the next two decades.At an event in Greensboro, North Carolina earlier today, the state’s governor, Roy Cooper, and the president of Boom Supersonic, Kathy Savitt, announced that they planned to open an “Overture Superfactory” at the Piedmont Triad International Airport.
“Boom Supersonic, the company that’s building the next generation of cleaner, faster passenger jets, will build them right here, at the Piedmont Triad Airport, creating 1,761 new, good-paying jobs,” Governor Cooper said at the event.The company is boasting that the construction of the factory, the creation of the first plane, and even its first flight will happen at a dizzying speed.
Questions remain about the company’s schedule: Besides the fact that the Boom demonstration aircraft, the XB-1, hasn’t yet flown yet, the passenger jet, Overture, will require engines. The company says it’s
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