NASA’s mission to revolutionize air travel has taken a significant step forward as the space agency starts building its X-59 QueSST supersonic jet.

The X-59 airplane is dubbed by some as “the son of Concorde” and is being manufactured, on behalf of NASA, by security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin.

NASA plans to publicly test its technology in Texas in November 2018 — in order to ensure that its prototype really will be barely audible when it crosses the sound barrier.

Creating a supersonic aircraft that doesn’t produce sonic booms would be a game-changer for aviation. Before being taken out of service, Concorde’s speed was restricted over certain land routes because of disruptive sound waves.

If NASA’s experimental project works, it should help make supersonic flight more economical.

[whnt.com]

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Son of NASP ? A cool project that was murdered by Congressional meddling ?

For those of us not familiar with the initialism: NASP

Related?
"[The] Concorde was normally perceived as a privilege of the rich, but special circular or one-way (with return by other flight or ship) charter flights were arranged to bring a trip within the means of moderately well-off enthusiasts"

With Lockheed Martin involved, it will fly at half the speed and cost twice as much.

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“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” -- François de La Rochefoucauld

"Those who cannot accept the past are condemned to revise it." -- Geo. Mathias

The German word for contraceptive is “Schwangerschaftsverhütungsmittel”. By the time you finished saying that, it’s too late

I’m hoping it will be eclipsed by Musk’s BFR scheme.

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"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." (1987) -- Carl Sagan

My bet is on Boom

[boomsupersonic.com]

Any Aero engineers cough*Pam*cough know why they don't fly higher than 60k to reduce drag?

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Any Aero engineers cough*Pam*cough know why they don't fly higher than 60k to reduce drag?

Supersonic passenger aircraft likely will fly considerably higher than 60,000 feet:

[en.wikipedia.org]
[en.wikipedia.org]