NASA Finally Unveiled 'Quiet' X-59 Supersonic Aircraft

Sounds like a good thing, but frankly we are having trouble with the quality & safety of subsonic flights now. Hopefully Lockheed-Martin is a better operation than Boeing now.

We do not need Mach 1 plus for passenger airplanes. What we need is bigger seats and more legroom stop trying to pack us in like a cattle car.

Faster medical response, i'm dying from laughter 😂

Who remembers the show, Get Smart? I remember they had something called the Hush-A-Boom. That's what they should call this plane as a nod to Get Smart. 😂😂

I used to love hearing the sonic boom when I was a child

If NASA/Boeing accomplishment with Starliner are anything to go by, can only hope that NASA's involvement with Lockheed Martin has better results.

Don’t let Boeing anywhere near it.

I tap out anytime a narrator tells me to “wait till the end to find out”.

concorde wasnt discontinued because of the sound of breaking the sound barrier. during its uk tour it passed over my house in england about 10 miles from mcr airport. it was not deafening nor did it rattle windows.

So the solution to the sonic boom problem is to build a plane that's really, really pointy. Jeez, who the hell would have ever guessed that?

I started school in Abilene, Texas where Dyess Air Force Base was located. Sonic booms were just a way of life. I don't remember anybody getting upset over them.

the thought of not having a visual reference of any kind in front of you at those heights and those speeds is truly terrifying and would no less require nerves of steel to get into a extremely fast box without windows.

Looks like affordable transportation for the .01%

The AI wants you to hear its perfect voice. The AI doesn’t understand that you want to hear what a sonic boom sounds like

But if you look at the shape of the X-59 it's obvious that to get the reduction in the sonic boom level it has had to have a really extreme pointy shape - 100ft long with a 30ft wingspan. Concorde was already very pointy, with a 200ft long fuselage and an 85 ft wingspan for 100 seats capacity. To scale up the X-59 proportionately for a 100 seat passenger jet it would be like 300ft long with a 90ft wingspan. That's a huge plane for 100 seats. Although very pointy planes fly very well at high speed they don't generate much lift at low speeds, so need really long runways to take-off and land. This would be even more true with a plane that's 300ft long.

Nothing like a passenger plane.

Fun fact: Every 3 decibels, the intensity of the sound *doubles*. From 75 to 105 decibels, the sound pressure has doubled 10 times! That makes the Concorde's sonic boom 1024 tiems louder than the new proposed line of jets.

It's basically an X world flight simulator with a small computer screen. Sure we can all handle 75 more decibels of noise while wearing noise canceling headphones.

unveiled in January ??? thats 6 months ago .

The amazing, technologically advanced Concorde provided most of the answers to these questions!