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What do you think of NASA/Lockeed's latest supersonic endeavor? X-59 QueSST
Posted on 11/21/20 at 2:53 pm
Posted on 11/21/20 at 2:53 pm
NASA's X59 Webpage
NASA Update
quote:And Elon's comment for good measure
NASA continues to make progress on the assembly of the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology, or QueSST, aircraft, while overcoming challenges presented by the global pandemic.
As early as 2024, NASA plans to fly the X-59 QueSST over select communities to gather information about how the public perceives the quiet noise the X-59 is designed to produce.
While the assembly of the X-59 presses on at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, the development of an all new, full scale experimental aircraft is a challenging undertaking.
“The integrated NASA and Lockheed Martin X-59 team is doing an amazing job given the challenging circumstances of COVID-19,” said NASA’s Low Boom Flight Demonstrator project manager Craig Nickol. “The team has shown remarkable resilience, and we’re excited to see the visible progress on X-59 assembly and integration every day. Although we have had some challenges in 2020, the team has responded well by updating plans and continuing to make progress. We’re looking forward to several important milestones this year.”
Upcoming milestones include completion of the X-59’s wing and its mating to the aircraft’s fuselage. NASA plans for the X-59’s assembly to wrap up, and major ground testing to begin, in summer 2021, leading to a target date for first flight in summer 2022.
NASA’s mission to provide regulators with data that may open the future to supersonic flight over land, drastically reducing flight times, is the culmination of decades of NASA supersonic research.
This post was edited on 11/21/20 at 3:04 pm
Posted on 11/21/20 at 3:01 pm to When in Rome
A waste of money that could be used for gender equality programs.
Posted on 11/21/20 at 3:01 pm to When in Rome
Sorta reminds me of a scaled down 2nd cousin of the XB-70.
Posted on 11/21/20 at 3:09 pm to Darth_Vader
IDA.org - Commercial Development of Civilian Supersonic Aircraft
quote:Interesting. I wonder if this X-59 will clear this hurdle. I'm guessing it is expected to do so. Per that same report:
The U.S. Government’s own work in support of supersonic commercial aircraft has included several programs, each of which was ultimately hindered by a combination of political, technological, regulatory, and economic hurdles. Research on the impact of supersonic flight programs was conducted as part of Operation Bongo II, in which the Air Force flew its XB-70 aircraft at 65,000 feet over Oklahoma City in 1964. Those tests yielded a significant number of noise complaints
as well as reports of broken glass and cracked plaster, fueling significant public concern over the effects of supersonic flight (Fields 1997; Benson 2013).
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The team hopes the X-59 will help prove many of the technologies necessary for the QSTA. One such technology is the shaping of the aircraft, through which the team expects to minimize the sonic boom, reducing it to a “thump” similar to a car door slamming.
Posted on 11/21/20 at 3:16 pm to When in Rome
why does everything have to mention the fricking "pandemic"
Posted on 11/21/20 at 3:21 pm to TheFlyingTiger
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why does everything have to mention the fricking "pandemic"
To touch the hearts of the Karen's of the world.
Posted on 11/21/20 at 3:54 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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To touch the hearts of the Karen's of the world.
Posted on 11/21/20 at 4:02 pm to When in Rome
Boom Supersonic is putting together their scaled down prototype as well.
Posted on 11/21/20 at 4:12 pm to When in Rome
Those will leave the quietest chemtrails we’ve never heard of.
Posted on 11/21/20 at 4:19 pm to When in Rome
Elaborate ruse since our black programs already use reverse engineered alien technology to warp time and space.
Posted on 11/21/20 at 4:25 pm to chinhoyang
President Obama told NASA administrator Charles Bolden that his highest priority should be "to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science"
LINK
LINK
Posted on 11/21/20 at 5:38 pm to When in Rome
It looks like a project rocket kit I made in 5th grade.
Posted on 11/21/20 at 5:39 pm to Darth_Vader
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XB-70
Loved that episode of WINGS
Posted on 11/21/20 at 7:13 pm to When in Rome
What do they use that for?
Posted on 11/21/20 at 7:14 pm to When in Rome
Looks like a lawn dart with a motor.
I like it!
I like it!
Posted on 11/21/20 at 7:53 pm to udtiger
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Loved that episode of WINGS
I miss the old Discovery and “H” channels
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