Rolls Royce is working on new Engine Technology of Supersonic Passenger Plane

Rolls Royce has said that it is working on new engine technology of Supersonic Passenger plane claimed on their official website.

Concorde Supersonic Plane of British Airways

“We share a strong interest in supersonic flight and in sustainability strategies for aviation with Boom,” said , Simon Carlislector of Strategy, “We’re now building on our valuable experience in this space as well as our previous work together to further match and refine our engine technology for Boom’s Overture”.

For many people, supersonic travel is still synonymous with Concorde, which was a technological marvel of its time, but aerospace technology has advanced greatly since

Engine

Engine for more than 50 years ago, the world’s first supersonic airliner, ‘Concorde’ with four Olympus 593 engines. These were afterburning engines that were state of the art when designed, but Overture could benefit from the advances in engine technology we’ve made over the years. We’ll work together to explore options for the most efficient propulsion system possible. 

Materials

Concorde was constructed of Aluminium. Overture will use carbon composites which are not only lighter, but more easily shaped into aerodynamically optimal forms.

Aerodynamics

Advanced computing allows thousands of iterations of aerodynamic testing, whereas Concorde was designed using slide rules and costly wind tunnel models,  limiting the ability to optimise.

The next generation supersonic plane will operated on SAF for high efficiency

The use of explore in supersonic flight. We’re building on our work with the oil and gas industry to accelerate the use of SAF, while Boom has partnered with and supported a number of organisations focused on sustainability, including Prometheus Fuels, a company making road and aviation fuel from atmospheric carbon dioxide.

As members of both the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) and the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials, Boom drives SAF adoption and has made sustainability a top priority.

Because supersonic airplanes will complement—not supplement—the subsonic fleet, Boom is keen to identify novel SAF sources that won’t compete with subsonic uses. Over the course of their engine development program, SAF from a number of pathways will be tested.

Most of our aircraft engines can already operate using blended Sustainable Aviation Fuels, and have already flown using them. We believe that all of our newer engines would probably be able to operate on 100% SAF, which we’re in the process of verifying.