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Awkward... The website FAQs still say "XB-1 test flights are planned for early 2022."

Way more delayed than that. Once upon a time, they were planning on test flights in 2017. Then 2018. Then 2019. Then 2020. Etc.

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/boom-xb1-superson...

https://www.denverpost.com/2017/06/20/centennial-boom-supers...

https://www.flightglobal.com/strategy/paris-boom-xb-1-schedu...

XB-1 is a prototype plane for R&D. It's target first flight now is fall 2022.

Overture is a production model for commercial operations.

Ehich measn, technically and legally, XB-1 isn't an aircraft. As pointed out elsewhere, the hard stuff is up ahead. Cudos so for BOOM for having customers signed on, something a lot of eVTOL companies only managed to do very recently.

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