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+== Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers ==
+Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.
+Jeremy Hsu – Oct 30, 2026 2:41 PM | 155
+Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl recently declared “it’s time for a renaissance in energy and in supersonic flight” as the supersonic airliner company unveiled a Colorado factory dedicated to making gas turbines for AI data centers. But Boom may be facing turbulence after early backers for both ventures have questioned the company’s delivery timeline or backed out entirely.
+One of the company’s first customers, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby, has expressed doubts about Boom’s original plan to deliver the first Overture supersonic airliner in 2029. Kirby’s latest frank assessment came during an interview with the Office Hours: Business Edition podcast that appeared on October 28, 2026.
+“‘29 is their official timeline,” Kirby told podcast host Monica Langley. “It’s not going to happen in ‘29—it’s going to take longer.”
+Boom first made headlines for flying its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft in 2024 and 2025 to demonstrate a “boomless cruise” concept that harnesses the Mach cutoff phenomenon. Such a feat involves flying just beyond supersonic speeds at higher altitudes under specific atmospheric conditions, so that the aircraft’s shockwaves refract upward and minimize the impact on the ground.
+The company’s plan to revive supersonic air travel has been backed by the Trump administration via efforts to ease regulations. In June 2026, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposed a new rule overturning a long-standing ban on commercial supersonic flights over the United States, following an executive order from President Donald Trump.
+https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/united-airlines-ceo-doubts-supersonic-airliner-from-boom-will-be-ready-by-2029/
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+== Researchers Spent 4 Days Investigating a Possible Amelia Earhart Wreck. Here’s What They Found ==
+A mysterious object suspected to be the Lockheed Electra 10E turned out to be something else entirely.
+Ellyn Lapointe - October 20, 2026, 11:20 am ET
+In 2020, an amateur researcher spotted an elongated, white object while browsing through Apple Maps satellite images of Nikumaroro Island in the West Pacific. In those blurry photos, it almost resembled an aircraft not unlike the plane Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan attempted to fly around the world in 1937.
+The unusual shape, which came to be known as the Taraia object, immediately captivated researchers who had long searched for Earhart’s plane. Could she and Noonan have landed on the remote, uninhabited island and become marooned there, never to be seen or heard from again?
+Last week, an expedition team arrived at Nikumaroro Island to investigate the Taraia object, hoping to finally solve the decades-old mystery of Earhart and Noonan’s disappearance. Their task was arduous. The object was located on the edge of Taraia Peninsula in the island’s lagoon and submerged in several feet of water, complicating investigative efforts. Plus, Nikumaroro is absolutely crawling with coconut crabs—freakishly large crustaceans so oppressive the team couldn’t stay on the island overnight.
+https://gizmodo.com/researchers-spent-4-days-investigating-a-possible-amelia-earhart-wreck-heres-what-they-found-2000828150
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+== The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon’s shadow ==
+Fitted with telescopes, the plane did our longest imaging of the Sun’s corona.
+Dhananjay Khadilkar – Aug 7, 2026 12:00 PM
+A walk down the tarmac at the National Air and Space Museum of France is guaranteed to thrill aviation enthusiasts. Several civilian and military aircraft of the past and the present are showcased in this museum, located at the Paris-Le Bourget airport. One of them is the legendary Concorde F-WTSS 001 prototype, the sight of which should give goosebumps to science enthusiasts as well.
+That’s because right behind its long nose is a painted map that traces the path of a June 1973 total solar eclipse across Africa. It’s there on the Concorde 001 prototype because a group of eight scientists set a new world record of observing a total solar eclipse for 74 minutes by flying this aircraft at more than twice the speed of sound.
+To put this figure into context, the maximum duration of totality on the ground is around 7.5 minutes when an eclipse is observed in the equatorial regions. For the upcoming solar eclipse of August 12, which can be seen from parts of Europe, the maximum duration of totality from the ground will be slightly more than two minutes.
+https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/the-ultimate-eclipse-chase-a-concorde-raced-against-the-moons-shadow/