In July, Lockheed Martin completed the build of NASA’s X-59 test aircraft, which is designed to turn sonic booms into mere thumps, in the hope of making overland supersonic flight a possibility. Ground tests and a first test flight are planned for later in the year. NASA aims to have enough data to hand over to US regulators in 2027.

  • _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Concorde wasn’t profitable in the long run. Nowadays with video conferencing, even less people need to show up to a transatlantic business meeting.

    Unlikely this makes financial sense.

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      1 year ago

      Great it’s cool research though and should continue, if you want to bitch about wasted taxes go comment on military threads and comment there where billions are wasted on shit contracts that never materialize due to incompetent base mangers who can’t distinguish vapor ware proposals from real tech. Don’t bitch about scientific research that’s just fucking dumb.

    • LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Yeah but that was decades ago.

      Without the boom, these planes can fly possibly more profitable routes, for example, drawing parallels is hard with such a time-distance