With one of these?
Posted on 02/13/2018 11:16:38 AM PST by BenLurkin
Known as the Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator (LBFD), this X-plane is scheduled to make its first test flight as early as 2021 and "would open a new market for U.S. companies to build faster commercial airliners, creating jobs and cutting cross-country flight times in half," the White House budget request states.
The goal of supersonic aircraft like LBFD is to make commercial airplanes that can fly faster than the speed of sound without generating a loud and obnoxious sonic boom, an ear-splitting noise associated with shock waves generated by an aircraft as it breaks the sound barrier
"Future supersonic aircraft seeking to achieve a low-boom, such as NASA's LBFD, will rely on a swept wing design in order to fly at supersonic speeds without producing a loud sonic boom," NASA officials said. "The swept wing design generally produces crossflow, which is a name for air flow disturbances that runs along the span of the wing, resulting in turbulent flow, increased drag and ultimately higher fuel consumption."
The agency has already been testing preliminary designs of the LBFD X-plane. Last summer, a scale model known as the Quiet Supersonic Transport (QueSST) aircraft was put to the test in a supersonic wind tunnel at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. With the financial support allotted by the 2019 budget request, the agency would be able to start building the full-scale LBFD with the goal of beginning flight tests in 2021.
"This budget maintains a robust investment of $633.9 million to improve air traffic management, make progress integrating unmanned systems into the airspace, and fund an experimental supersonic airplane and increase hypersonics research," NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot said during the annual State of NASA speech on Monday
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Now, lets spread the rumor that it’s for Melania to use to go to Europe to get her hair did, and watch the libs spontaneously combust on the spot. lol
Fabulous
Exactly the kind of aeronautics prgm that NASA should be doing!
With one of these?
If energy is not going into creating a sonic boom, then perhaps it will be more fuel efficient.
BOOM ping!
I’d want one.
Another government Amtrak boondoggle? No, give it to the private sector, like Elon Musk!!
Project Lawn Dart
“”Future supersonic aircraft seeking to achieve a low-boom”
LOL! Except they’ll need to stop at every state along the way, resulting in a 10-hour flight.
Is this the one that they plan to stack us like cordwood in for passenger service?
No windows? No view at all?
Phooey!
You do understand that your "objections" are pointless and irrelevant.
Right?
Personally, I, Myself, would much rather prefer a High-Boom-Boom as opposed to a Low-Boom-Boom.
Jart!
Post that to the buffoons who came up with the silly, irrelevant objections.
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