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NASA's X-59 plane is aiming for a sonic thump, not a boom
- beardyw 2y agoQuestion is, can it circle in a stack? Concord was excused that problem.
- alexey-salmin 2y agoWhat?
- 0_____0 2y agoI think they're talking about joining a holding pattern as inbound traffic to an aerodrome
- dingaling 2y agoUnfortunately its configuration, even if successful, is wholly impractical to scale up to a commercial aircraft. Being able to generate a softer thump with a needle-like aircraft is technically interesting but practically irrelevant. The SSBD program had more potential, playing around with more capacious configurations that could possibly have been expanded upon: https://www.airliners.net/photo/NASA/Northrop-Grumman-F-5E-SSBD/1148586 https://www.airliners.net/photo/NASA/Northrop-Grumman-F-5E-S...
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y agoUhm, why? Does it look that different from concepts like these? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_Engines_LAPCAT_A2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_Engines_LAPCAT_A2 (Yah, Yah, I know they are broke now. So sad...)