[Berlin_Freeper]

[Red Badger]

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft sits on the apron outside Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility at dawn in Palmdale, California. The X-59 is the centerpiece of NASA’s Quesst mission, which seeks to address one of the primary challenges to supersonic flight over land by making sonic booms quieter. Lockheed Martin Skunk Works

[Berlin_Freeper]

NASA aircraft X-59 - supersonic like the Concorde, only better | DW News

[G Larry]

I’m guessing it’ll take 20 years to scale this up for commercial passenger applications.

[Honest Nigerian]

Holding my breath as I ponder how much of the work was done by the DEI team members. Lockheed Martin does so much work for the government you know that they are fully infiltrated.

[Yossarian]

I watched the stream, but I had to wretch when Gavin Newsom's stand-in Dee Dee Myers (sound familiar, Clinton-era FReepers?) gave a long speech on why California is where innovators come to.

Innovators are leaving California in droves!!!

[rottndog]

Other than novelty and wealthy jetsetters, what would be the civilian market application for this?

[nicollo]

Can't wait until United Airlines gets hold of this one:


Nothing like going supersonic with your knees in your chest and your shoulders squished between the two fat dudes to either side...