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Boom (YC W16) — Economically and environmentally sustainable supersonic travel

Boom Supersonic is transforming air travel with Overture, the world’s fastest airliner, optimized for speed, safety, and sustainability. Serving both civil and government markets, Overture will fly at twice the speed of today’s airliners and is designed to run on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

Boom is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2016 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Economically and environmentally sustainable supersonic travel. The founder listed is Blake Scholl (Founder/CEO) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 21, 2015).

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Boom

New accelerator entry · 2015-11-21 · the record

Winter 2016
batch
227
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchWinter 2016
Announced2015-11-21
StageGrowth
StatusActive
Team size227
IndustryIndustrials
Sub-industryIndustrials -> Aviation and Space
SectorsTransportation, Aerospace
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedDenver, CO, USA; Englewood, CO, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://boomsupersonic.com/

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Boom Supersonic is transforming air travel with Overture, the world’s fastest airliner, optimized for speed, safety, and sustainability. Serving both civil and government markets, Overture will fly at twice the speed of today’s airliners and is designed to run on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Symphony™, a Boom-led collaboration with industry leaders, is the propulsion system that will power Overture. Overture’s order book, including purchases and options from American Airlines, United Airlines, and Japan Airlines stands at 130 aircraft. Boom is working with Northrop Grumman for government and defense applications of Overture. Suppliers and partners collaborating with Boom on the Overture program include Collins Aerospace, Eaton, Florida Turbine Technologies (FTT), a business unit of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., GE Additive, Safran Landing Systems, StandardAero and the United States Air Force. For more information, visit https://boomsupersonic.com Boom’s world-class engineering team comes from places including SpaceX, Boeing, Gulfstream, Virgin Galactic, Scaled Composites, NASA, and Bombardier. We have uniquely challenging and world-changing opportunities for the most talented aerospace engineers, designers, and business people.

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