NASA moves a step closer to supersonic passenger flights | CNN
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A new study by NASA’s Glenn Research Center has looked at the possibility of supersonic passenger jets. Its “high-speed strategy” is mooting commercial flights that travel at up to Mach 4 – over 3,000 miles per hour – starting with transoceanic routes.

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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    2 years 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.

    • LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      2 years 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