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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You see that and are supposed to think it's ready for an imminent test flight (after all, it's on the runway!). But it's not. That's the last video on the page, BTW. Meanwhile, they're released a ton of content that doesn't say up front where they are in development.
No, you are not supposed to think it's ready for an imminent test flight. No plane flies the day of rollout! The idea is preposterous. You're mistaking your own ignorance of aircraft production for some kind of effort by Boom to trick you.
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They were very transparent with their timeline and progress to date -- certainly compared to a lot of other companies in the aerospace field. WTF is wrong with you?
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I saw the XB1 tweets, and part of their fancy video, and thought they were ready to fly -- the new Concorde. So as far as I'm concerned,
@gaberivera is highlighting something I didn't get from the glitzy marketing. I appreciate his highlighting it. - Show replies
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Problem is with the word “rollout” which is used differently in aviation than in regular language. For e.g. Amazon’s drones have been “rolledout” using aviation lingo, but we never say “rollout” because people would expect to get packages via drones.
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