2024-01-13 13:00:53
Since the retirement of Harmony, supersonic flight has become a patent for fighter aircraft, but related developments are not entirely for military purposes. NASA recently announced that it has completed the development of its X-59 supersonic aircraft, which can significantly reduce the impact of sonic booms.
The X-59 supersonic aircraft is a joint project between NASA and Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works. It spent US$248 million in 2018. The goal is to build an experimental aircraft to demonstrate various designs of supersonic flight. This is the first appearance of the X-59. NASA said that the X-59 will change the way we travel and enable people to communicate more closely.
The flight speed of the X-59 reaches 1,489 kilometers per hour. The biggest design element is to minimize the impact of the “sonic boom” phenomenon when breaking the speed of sound. Therefore, an extremely slender fuselage is used to reduce the shock waves, successfully reducing the sonic boom to A small “rumbling” sound. In order to achieve this goal, there is no window in front of the cockpit, but a 4K screen instead.
Reducing the impact of sonic booms will reduce the impact on the surrounding environment. This was one of the reasons why the Harmony was retired at that time. Although the development of supersonic civil aircraft in the future is still far away, the emergence of the X-59 is undoubtedly a technological breakthrough that will pave the way for the future. The development brings reference.
source:TechCrunch
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