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NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft (www.nasa.gov)

submitted 10 months ago by Hypx@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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NASA and Lockheed Martin formally debuted the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft Friday. Using this one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims to

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[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"NASA aims to gather data that could revolutionize air travel, paving the way for a new generation of commercial aircraft that can travel faster than the speed of sound."

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I think that is definitely just a cover because they don't want to admit they're actually developing supersonic stealth planes for the military.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

I think that is definitely just a cover because they don't want to admit ~~they're~~ they've actually ~~developing~~ developed supersonic stealth planes for the military.

Ftfy

What they reveal openly is usually from years ago. A couple aerospace friends are always like "yea, we heard scuttlebut about that about 5 years ago, so that means it was already a thing 10 years ago*, haha.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Well hiding the giant boom is probably a good stepping stone to that so yeah

[–] grayman@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

From the eyewitness accounts of whistle blowers, traditional propulsion and modern propulsion are old tech compared to what they have today. Silent and extremely fast already exists.