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NEWS DIGITAL

CONGO AIRWAYS TO RESUME

FLIGHTS TO AFRICA

The announcement was made by This month Congo Airways will add two
Desire Balazire, chief executive officer of E175s to its fleet. The carrier signed a
(US) $194.4 million deal with Embraer in
Congo Airways plans to restore South Congo Airways during the 52nd annual December 2019 for these jets. Q
general assembly of the African Airlines
Africa, Abidjan, Douala services soon. Association (AFRAA).

NEWS DIGITAL

COLLINS AEROSPACE AND BOOM

SUPERSONIC

nology for more than 70 years, including ties while enhancing performance.
development of the first commercial "Boom is taking an all-encompassing
Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of variable fan nozzle for high-bypass-ratio approach to sustainability — from our com-
Raytheon Technologies (RTX), has signed geared turbofan (GTF) engines. mitment to make Overture 100% carbon
a collaboration agreement withBoom "Through improved acoustics and neutral to minimizing community noise and
Supersonic, the aerospace company lightweight materials systems, we can emissions, we're dedicated to making main-
building the world's fastest airliner, to provide the next generation of supersonic stream supersonic travel environmentally
advance nacelle technology on Boom's propulsion systems with the nacelle and economically sustainable," said Blake
forthcoming flagship supersonic airliner, technologies that not only enable higher Scholl, Boom founder and CEO. "We are
Overture. performance and lower fuel burn, but also leveraging Collins' experience in developing
Overture will be the world's fastest quieter operation," said Marc Duvall, pres- more fuel efficient and noise attenuating
airliner and is designed and committed to ident, Aerostructures, Collins Aerospace. technologies for nacelles to help us develop
industry-leading standards of speed, safety, "Having completed 19 nacelle certification Overture as an environmentally responsible
and sustainability. programs over the past decade, we're supersonic jet."
Collins Aerospace engineers will work uniquely positioned to collaborate with Boom's mission is to make the world
in concert with Boom to develop inlet, Boom Supersonic to create new propul- dramatically more accessible by making
nacelle and exhaust system technologies sion-system solutions that will be key supersonic travel mainstream. Overture
that enable fuel-burn reduction and enablers of Overture's success." is in its design phase with plans to finalize
cutting-edge acoustics for cleaner and The combined engineering team will be the configuration and begin building the
quieter supersonic flight. They will do this exploring the development of advanced first airliner while XB-1 is flying supersonic.
via lightweight aerostructures and variable acoustics and variable inlet and exhaust Boom will roll out the first completed
nacelle geometry. Collins Aerospace has technologies required to minimize aircraft Overture aircraft in 2025, with entry into
been providing innovative nacelle tech- noise for passengers and airport communi- service planned for 2029. Q

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