At Boom Supersonic’s shimmering new Superfactory in Greensboro, North Carolina, a milestone has just rolled through the doors on the back of a flatbed truck. It is not a jet engine or a wing assembly, but something just as important to the future of flight: a massive Mazak Quick Turn 450MY lathe, roughly the size of a UPS truck. The machine is the very first to arrive at Boom’s in-house machine shop, and it is set to play a crucial role in building Symphony, the sustainable 35,000-pound-thrust jet engine that will one day power Boom’s supersonic airliner, Overture.
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