## Fact Sheet

## Boom Supersonic

### Company Information

- **Founder & CEO**: Blake Scholl  
- **Year Founded**: 2014  
- **Headquarters**: Denver, CO  
- **Overture Manufacturing Site**: Greensboro, NC  
- **Funding**: Nearly $1B from investment  
  - Select Investors: Darsana Capital Partners, Altimeter Capital, ARK Invest, Bessemer Venture Partners, Robinhood Ventures, Y Combinator

## Overture: The World’s Fastest Airliner—Optimized for Speed, Safety, and Sustainability

### Specifications

- **Capacity**: 60-80 passengers  
- **Sustainability**: Optimized for up to 100% SAF  
- **Cruising Altitude**: 60,000 feet  
- **Profitable Routes**: 600+  
- **Length**: 201 feet  
- **Wingspan**: 106 feet  
- **Speed**: Mach 1.7  
- **Max Range**: 4,250 NM (7,871 KM)

### Airlines

- **Order Book**: Overture’s order book stands at 130 aircraft, including orders and pre-orders from American Airlines, United Airlines, and Japan Airlines.  
  - **American Airlines**: Made a deposit on up to 20 aircraft, with an option for 40 more, in August 2022.  
  - **United Airlines**: Became the first U.S. airline to sign an aircraft purchase agreement with Boom for 15 aircraft with an option for 35 more in June 2021.  
  - **Japan Airlines**: Announced a strategic partnership in 2017 to bring commercial supersonic travel to passengers with an option for 20 aircraft.

## Overture Superfactory: The first Supersonic Airliner Factory in the United States

### Final Assembly Line for Overture

- Located at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, NC, the first assembly line will produce 33 Overture supersonic aircraft annually. A planned second assembly line will double aircraft production to 66 each year.

## XB-1: The World’s First Independently Developed Supersonic Jet

- **XB-1** is Boom’s technology demonstrator aircraft and the first civil supersonic jet built in America. First taking flight in March 2024, XB-1 completed a series of flight tests in Mojave, CA, culminating in successful supersonic test flights in January and February 2025.

### Specifications

- **Engine**: 3 GE J85-15 Engines  
- **Max thrust**: 12,300 pounds of force (lbf)  
- **Length**: 62.6 feet  
- **Wingspan**: 21 feet

### Milestones

- **2020**: Rollout  
- **2021**: Systems integration  
- **2022**: Ground testing in Centennial, CO  
- **2023**: Relocation and ground testing in Mojave, CA  
- **2024**: XB-1 completes 10 test flights in Mojave, CA  
- **2025**: XB-1 achieves supersonic flight in Mojave, CA  
- **2025**: XB-1 demonstrates Mach cutoff, breaking the sound barrier six times without creating an audible sonic boom  
- **2025**: XB-1 flight test program concludes, following 13 successful test flights and six supersonic runs  
- **2025**: XB-1 comes home to Boom HQ in Denver, CO

## Symphony: The Purpose-Built Turbofan Optimized for Supersonic Flight

### Key Engine Features

- 40,000 lb thrust class  
- 72” diameter hollow-core fan blades  
- Medium bypass ratio  
- Vertically integrated manufacturing  
- Compatible with up to 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)  
- Compliant with global noise standards  
- FAA Part 33 / EASA CS-E certified

### Engine Architecture & Dimensions

- **Overall size**: 42 ft length × 84 in diameter  
- **12 ft** supersonic inlet with auxiliary intake  
- **11 ft** turbofan  
- **19 ft** variable-geometry exhaust with integrated thrust reverser

### Turbomachinery Configuration

- Single stage fan  
- Three stage low-pressure compressor (LPC)  
- Six stage high-pressure compressor (HPC)  
- Single stage high pressure turbine (HPT)  
- Three stage low-pressure turbine (LPT)

## Superpower: The Natural Gas Turbine Enabled by Supersonic Technology

- The same supersonic technology drives both the Superpower turbine and the Symphony jet engine: an all-new engine core designed for sustained and efficient high power output, even under challenging thermal conditions. Superpower is designed and built in the United States.

### Key Features

- 42 MW of ISO-rated power in a shipping-container-sized package  
- Full rated output in ambient temperatures exceeding 110°F  
- Waterless operation, enabling deployment in hot and arid environments  
- Runs on clean natural gas with backup diesel capability  
- Dramatically better real-world price performance when compared to other aeroderivative engines

### Launch Customer

- **Crusoe**: Superpower launches with a substantial order book valued over $1.25B. Crusoe, an energy-first AI infrastructure leader, ordered 29 Superpower turbines, which will generate 1.21GW of new energy capacity for its advanced AI datacenters.