Posted on 12/17/2019 6:50:09 AM PST by DFG
NASA's incredible X-plane that is shaped to muffle the sound of its sonic boom has been cleared for assembly by a management review ahead of test flights in 2021.
Dubbed the 'son of Concorde' after the Mach 2 airliner, the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) is NASA's first large experimental plane in three decades.
The X-59 will cruise at Mach 1.42 (1,090 mph/1,754 km/h) and is designed for supersonic flight while preventing its sonic boom from being heard on the ground.
If successful, the craft could one day travel from London to New York in just over three hours, while transcending objections to supersonic air travel over land.
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I heard in the new Top Gun they feature some airplane similar to this:
Their impression of what The Aurora must be like.
Instead of a yuge “CRACK..!” it’s more like a softer “ka..RUMPH..!”
And it seems very far-off.
I heard.
“I heard.”
I see what you did there! :)
That plane is exactly what my 1970’s teenage mind would have envisioned for 2020.
So it still has a sonic boom, just not heard on the ground??? Any current aero-engineers that can explain this further? Is it simply because the incident angle of the wave is so shallow it extends over the horizon rather than intersects the Earths surface?
Kewl, open cockpit and a thousand miles an hour too.
Carries all of 2 passengers too.
What will the little Swedish Nazi have to say ?
This is obviously not the commercial version. More like the "I want to be the only guy with a hover car" version. ;)
I think Aurora is a defunct test plane. It’s been on black op sites for so long it’s propellers are rusted and it’s vacuum tubes are fried.
Greta does not approve.
Reminds me of President Trump’s hair
I said I wanted a damn window seat! and there’s only one? And a sky light?
It’s an “X” plane, not an airliner. It’s function is simply to test technology.
So George Bush could have gotten to Iran!....................
HOW DARE YOU!........................
I heard the skids are cracked and the canvas is all shabby and torn, too..!
:(
It’s an “X” plane, not an airliner. It’s function is simply to test technology.
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And to guzzle money.
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