Blake Scholl prv 🛫
@bsschollFounder/CEO @boomaero. Life is short so if you want to do a lot, it helps to move fast. Alumnus @Amazon and @CarnegieMellon
My two year old keeps asking to see “red car rocket”—and loves her Roadster and Falcon Heavy toys. There is definitely something special about dual booster landings. Our kids get to grow up watching this stuff invented. What a gift.
Weather and technical status looking 70% good for a new XB-1 top speed Friday. 🤞
“Floppy disks to pay $212m to end reliance on San Francisco” Would be a better headline
XB-1 update: Flight Six target wheels up at 11a PST tomorrow. We’re looking to expand the speed envelope as high as Mach 0.8 and the altitude envelope to 23,000ft. As always, this is a test flight and could delay or not go as planned.
Chocks are out, just got our clearance to taxi to runway 30. As before, T-38 chase will take off first and then perform and “airborne pickup”—an airborne rendezvous so that T-38 is in formation with XB-1 as it takes off
It’s looking like a good day for progress toward supersonic flight. As we speak, Geppetto is in XB-1, starting engines now. Things are looking 🟢 for Flight Six today. Realtime update🧵 👇
XB-1 is on runway 30 at Mojave Air and Space Port, about to take off for Flight Six in a few minutes. Realtime update thread here:
It’s looking like a good day for progress toward supersonic flight. As we speak, Geppetto is in XB-1, starting engines now. Things are looking 🟢 for Flight Six today. Realtime update🧵 👇
On the climb out - today’s goal is to test out the adjusted Flutter Excitation System (FES) and clear flutter and handling qualities to new top speed, potentially as high as Mach 0.8
We are holding short of runway now, burning off a little gas to get down to our target takeoff weight. Doing before takeoff checklist now.
And we’re back on the ground. Don’t think we got all of our test points today thx to instrumentation flakiness, but definitely made progress 💪
Hey @flightradar24 can we get @boomaero XB-1 a more appropriate icon? flightradar24.com/KSTRL11/37b5ce…
Had an awesome XB-1 Flight Six today. Those of you watching closely might notice this is a great flight and not all we were hoping to do today. We had some avionics GPS/INS gremlins. Team debugging on the ground this weekend; looking forward to being back in the air soon.
BREAKING: XB-1 successfully completed its sixth test flight and continues to gain altitude, approaching supersonic flight later this year. ✅New max altitude: 20,000 ft ✅Flutter excitation system (FES) test at Mach 0.65 ✅Demonstrated successful FES operation in flight Read…
I tear up every time I see XB-1 take off. Have fought so hard for this for so many years against so many setbacks—the worst all self-inflicted. Almost failed so many times. As have many others @boomaero Grateful for the drive and perseverance of our team.
Here’s a better view of takeoff. This will never get old. So cool to see the gear coming up right after 🛫
INS fix turned out to be an easy 1-line software bug. We were using GPS accuracy metadata to judge INS health, so when GPS accuracy degraded (happens sometimes) the MFD X’d out everything that comes from INS. Small bug, trivial fix. 💪 2/2
XB-1 update: looking like Flight Seven will be next week, perhaps Tuesday or so, depending on weather. On the last flight airplane and flutter test system performed great, and we also had some INS (inertial navigation system) gremlins. Turned out to be an easy fix. 1/2👇
Why was the XB-1 team hauling a** down the Mojave runway... in a modified Mazda Miata? We're cooking up something extra fun as we plan for Mach 1. Can't wait to share more!
One of my favorite things about the @boomaero XB-1 team is how much fun they have while being scrappy and badass all at the same time. MT-01 successfully met all test objectives... can't wait to share what it was all about. 😁
Why was the XB-1 team hauling a** down the Mojave runway... in a modified Mazda Miata? We're cooking up something extra fun as we plan for Mach 1. Can't wait to share more!
“Have you had any trick-or-treaters?” “Negative, ghostrider, the candy bowl is full.”
I’m kinda surprised no one has yet figured out what this test was about.
One of my favorite things about the @boomaero XB-1 team is how much fun they have while being scrappy and badass all at the same time. MT-01 successfully met all test objectives... can't wait to share what it was all about. 😁
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