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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People often put down efforts to do new things because they're threatened by them. But I don't think that is the case here. I think Gabe just has no idea how aircraft production works, and his misunderstanding of it led him to believe Boom was trying to mislead people.
He seems to have believed initially that this plane was a 1:n scale non-flying model of the Overture. In fact neither of those is true.
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If this helps, I've been following Boom on Twitter for months and I've just realised that this plane is not the airliner. I've never seen any mention that this was a scale model.
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We called them ‘technology demonstrators’ at Beta Air. Of course it’s OK to hype those; they’re a key milestone before the final product. SpaceX did tons of those early on. Remember Grasshopper?
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They open the video with 'supersonic in...', 'this is supersonic'. Unless this video is for aviation people (likely not since it's missing tech data), it's on them to describe the process. I also thought it's a scale model since it has windows but cross-section is too small.
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Now that you mentioned it I understand it's just a normal early step in the process. But the video hypes it up a bit too much. I mean we don't even know if this thing will be supersonic yet.
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