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remember "The 6 Million Dollar Man"...
well this is the actual ship that was flown and crashed by brave pilots in Test Flight...
on the upside the guy who was actually flying the M2-F2 when it crashed, and was used for the TV show, was nursed back to health and all he lost was an eye!!
Link to M2-F2!
They spitefully refer to these new designs as "lawn darts".
What the difference is between now and then I don't know. It could fall out of fancy just as quick.
I do know that during a big factory floor pow-wow / pep-rally at Boeing one of the big wigs (not Condit) seemed to imply that the problems with the noise from the oblique compression and expansion shock waves have been solved.
Something to do with projecting electromagnetic (microwave?) energy from the aero surfaces.
I do hope someone pushes the technology though. I haven't performed shock or isentropic flow relation calculations since my college days. It would be nice to pull out my NACA Mach tables again.
Nosir, won't do it.
However, I might at some date in the future jump, wave my arms, and shout..."remember the Zero!(Hughes racer, Sikorski 35, Curtis Hawk), Remember the Honda! (Corvair, Falcon), Remember the Kawasaki/Honda/Suzuki (Triumph, Norton, Ducatti, Moto-Guzzi, Bultaco, BSA, & etc.), and Remember Hiroshima! (senseless guilt and rampant post-event racial profiling).
Will working in Washington DC area some years ago I was able to see the Concorde fly in and out of Dulles Airport.
It's about time for a new Supersonic Passenger Plane, cause that was a lot of years ago!
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