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
“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.”
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.
Well hiding the giant boom is probably a good stepping stone to that so yeah
I think that is definitely just a cover because they don’t want to admit
they’rethey’ve actuallydevelopingdeveloped 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.
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.
