TECH - Tesla CEO Elon Musk Looking Forward To A Concorde Successor From Boom Supersonic: 'I Hope They Succeed!' | Benzinga
Tesla Inc and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday expressed optimism for Boom Supersonic looking to design a supersonic airliner named Overture to succeed the Concorde.
What Happened: “I hope they succeed!,” Musk said about Boom on Monday, following the announcement of the completion of the company’s Overture superfactory in North Carolina.
I hope they succeed! — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 18, 2024
The factory is located at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro and is where Boom expects to build the Overture. While the first assembly line at the plant can make 33 Overture aircraft per year, the company plans to build an additional assembly line to produce 66 Overtures annually, it said.
Boom, founded in 2014 in Colorado, flew the XB-1 for the ...