The calm supersonic plane that could allow you to fly quicker than any time in recent memory
In an austere overhang in the California high desert, the last contacts are meeting up on an airplane that could reshape flying. A needle-nosed plane that looks more like an advanced sketch from a 1950s science fiction comic – every broad line and solid bends, a limited cockpit covered in the middle. Planned and worked by NASA and Lockheed Martin, this is the supersonic plane of things to come. Furthermore, when it takes to the skies, NASA and Lockheed are trusting you will not see it flying by.
I’m at the Armstrong Flight Research Center, right outside of Lancaster, California, to see the X-59 QueSST (short for Quiet SuperSonic Technology) – a demonstrator airplane intended to fly quicker than the speed of sound without creating a hazardous sonic blast.
A conventional supersonic airplane can make a sonic blast more than 100 decibels when it’s anything but, a sharp strong stronger than a light show. It was this problematic sound that drove the Federal Aviation Administration to boycott business supersonic trip over land in 1973.
Yet, the X-59 has been molded to limit the shock waves that cause a sonic blast midflight, decreasing its sound at ground level to 75 decibels. As per NASA, that is probably just about as uproarious as a vehicle entryway hammering down the road.
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