{"id":166401,"date":"2023-06-25T14:40:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T19:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/american-airlines-plans-to-buy-20-supersonic-planes"},"modified":"2023-06-25T14:40:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T19:40:38","slug":"american-airlines-plans-to-buy-20-supersonic-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/american-airlines-plans-to-buy-20-supersonic-planes","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines plans to buy 20 supersonic planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WiKzQG_wSG8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>American Airlines has agreed to <a href=\"https:\/\/boomsupersonic.com\/news\/post\/american-airlines-announces-agreement-to-purchase-boom-supersonic-overture-aircraft-places-deposit-on-20-overtures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">purchase<\/a> 20 supersonic planes from Denver-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/entrepreneurship-innovation\/boom-supersonic-commercial-jet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Boom Supersonic<\/a> \u2014 if the startup can get the ultrafast jets off the ground and approved by regulators.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters: <\/strong>Supersonic planes, by definition, travel faster than the speed of sound \u2014 767 miles per hour \u2014 but Boom\u2019s in-development Overture jet is expected to travel much faster than that, with a cruising speed of 1,227 mph.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s about twice as fast as any existing commercial airplane, so it would dramatically cut flight times \u2014 at that speed, a trip from Miami to London would take less than 5 hours, compared to today\u2019s 9.5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines has agreed to purchase 20 supersonic planes from Denver-based Boom Supersonic \u2014 if the startup can get the ultrafast jets off the ground and approved by regulators. Why it matters: Supersonic planes, by definition, travel faster than the speed of sound \u2014 767 miles per hour \u2014 but Boom\u2019s in-development Overture jet is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}