Image Courtesy of Boom Supersonic Disclosure The author is the founder of Spike Aerospace, a company developing supersonic aircraft. This analysis is based solely on publicly available information and reflects an industry perspective. Executive Summary Boom Supersonic is the most advanced commercial supersonic startup in the public domain. Its successful…

Executive Summary The return of civilian supersonic flight is often framed as a question of scale—whether faster travel can be extended across large passenger markets at airline economics. Spike Aerospace is approaching the problem from a different direction. Rather than attempting to make supersonic travel broadly accessible, Spike is targeting…

In a world where computing power has advanced exponentially, communication is effectively instantaneous, and global businesses operate in real time, one critical dimension has remained largely unchanged: the speed at which we move people across long distances. A flight from New York to London today takes roughly as long as…