oh no a bunch of startup people are tweeting about a plane as if it's a operational supersonic aircraft when actually it's a scale model and it doesn't fly
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It's not a scale model. The xb-1 is a different design. And it will fly after it completes ground tests. No new aircraft design flies before completing ground tests.
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You're usually pretty good on tech questions, but you've really got the wrong end of the stick on this one. No one is claiming the xb-1 is the airliner, and rollout followed by ground tests followed by flight tests is exactly the same procedure used with every new plane.
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and the roadmap is explained on the website. It goes to 2029.
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Point taken. I said that wrong.
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