Boom Supersonic will need a new engine manufacturer as it moves forward with plans to create a pioneering commercial supersonic jet in North Carolina.
Last week, Rolls-Royce announced it is ending its partnership with Boom, a Colorado-based company that has received more than $121 million in state and Guilford County incentives to build an assembly and testing facility at the Piedmont Triad International Airport.
Boom has committed to employ more than 1,750 people and invest $500 million in the site by the end of the decade. The plan is for the Piedmont facility to produce the Overture, Boom’s prospective slender-nosed, four-engine passenger aircraft that could cruise at 1,300 mph over water and 770 mph over land.
