Thud
I wonder how they deal with the high angle of attack on landing?
MemoriaTechnica
Please tell me that demonstrator half scale. From the looks of it, there's only room in the cockpit for a single pilot, in a fighter jet stile position, which means ingress and egress would have to be via a raisable canopy. Same goes for the passengers too. While that may be fine for the pilot, it looks incredibly claustrophobic for the passengers. Not to mention, no inflight service or bathroom breaks.
windykites
Good name: Boom. I guess there is still the same problem: Boom.
Alastair
To MemoriaTechnica
If you read the text again you should see that this a one third scale model.
BlueOak
Yawn. Talk is cheap. Doesn’t appear any real new benchmarks have been met.
MikeDalton
I'm not an aerospace engineer, but something about the square engine boxes bothers me. Seems like a heavily rounded triangular shape would work better. You would get a somewhat flat surface to mate with the wing, and you could put a generous radius on the circumference of the air inlet. The intake turbulence from those corners must be incredible.
dugnology
There can be only one engine manufacturer for this small market. You have Boom, Aerion and maybe another. Only one will make it.
Cryptonoetic
Another toy for the T-Men.
Nelson Hyde Chick
Another toy for the wealthy as the rest of humanity is allowed to rot. And are we in such a hurry we need to use the much greater increased energy it takes to taken anything supersonic?
bhtooefr
@MemoriaTechnica: You can see here: https://newatlas.com/boom-xb-1-prototype/46452/ that the prototype is just a 2-seater, fighter-jet style.

Looks like they're going to try things out on the smaller craft, and then scale them up.