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Nasa unveils quiet supersonic aircraft in effort to revive commercial flights (www.theguardian.com)
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In launch event on Friday, agency shared plans to test over US cities to see if it’s quiet enough by engaging ‘the people below’

Nasa has unveiled a one-of-a-kind quiet supersonic aircraft as part of the US space agency’s mission to make commercial supersonic flight possible.

In a joint ceremony with Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, on Friday, Nasa revealed the X-59, an experimental aircraft that is expected to fly at 1.4 times the speed of sound – or 925mph (1,488 km/h).

The aircraft, which stands at 99.7ft (30.4 metres) long and 29.5ft wide, has a thin, tapered nose that comprises nearly a third of the aircraft’s full length – a feature designed to disperse shock waves that would typically surround supersonic aircraft and result in sonic booms.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Any passenger plane based on this design is going to be very low capacity, and wholly unable to pull up to a jet bridge at any airport.

I was addressing this, that passenger designs based on this design may not look anything like this airplane. So the constraints of the demonstrator won't necessaraly carry over to the actual vehicles.