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NASA's X-plane dubbed the 'son of Concorde' is cleared for final assembly ahead of testing in 2021 (TR)
UK Daily Mail ^
| 12/17/2019
| Ian Randall
Posted on 12/17/2019 6:50:09 AM PST by DFG
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posted on
12/17/2019 6:50:09 AM PST
by
DFG
To: DFG
I heard in the new Top Gun they feature some airplane similar to this:
Their impression of what The Aurora must be like.
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posted on
12/17/2019 6:51:14 AM PST
by
gaijin
To: DFG
Instead of a yuge “CRACK..!” it’s more like a softer “ka..RUMPH..!”
And it seems very far-off.
I heard.
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posted on
12/17/2019 6:53:29 AM PST
by
gaijin
To: gaijin
“I heard.”
I see what you did there! :)
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posted on
12/17/2019 6:56:18 AM PST
by
brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
To: DFG
That plane is exactly what my 1970’s teenage mind would have envisioned for 2020.
To: DFG
is designed for supersonic flight while preventing its sonic boom from being heard on the ground So it still has a sonic boom, just not heard on the ground??? Any current aero-engineers that can explain this further? Is it simply because the incident angle of the wave is so shallow it extends over the horizon rather than intersects the Earths surface?
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posted on
12/17/2019 6:58:35 AM PST
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
To: DFG
Kewl, open cockpit and a thousand miles an hour too.
Carries all of 2 passengers too.
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posted on
12/17/2019 6:59:49 AM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: DFG
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posted on
12/17/2019 7:00:26 AM PST
by
deadrock
To: DFG
What will the little Swedish Nazi have to say ?
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posted on
12/17/2019 7:00:45 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: DFG
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posted on
12/17/2019 7:01:09 AM PST
by
deadrock
To: tet68
Carries all of 2 passengers too.This is obviously not the commercial version. More like the "I want to be the only guy with a hover car" version. ;)
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posted on
12/17/2019 7:01:11 AM PST
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
To: gaijin
I think Aurora is a defunct test plane. It’s been on black op sites for so long it’s propellers are rusted and it’s vacuum tubes are fried.
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posted on
12/17/2019 7:01:27 AM PST
by
Artemis Webb
(There are only two genders.)
To: DFG
To: DFG
Reminds me of President Trump’s hair
To: deadrock
I said I wanted a damn window seat! and there’s only one? And a sky light?
To: tet68
It’s an “X” plane, not an airliner. It’s function is simply to test technology.
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posted on
12/17/2019 7:03:09 AM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: tet68
So George Bush could have gotten to Iran!....................
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posted on
12/17/2019 7:05:29 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
HOW DARE YOU!........................
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posted on
12/17/2019 7:05:53 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: Artemis Webb
I heard the skids are cracked and the canvas is all shabby and torn, too..!
:(
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posted on
12/17/2019 7:07:08 AM PST
by
gaijin
To: NorthMountain
It’s an “X” plane, not an airliner. It’s function is simply to test technology.
...
And to guzzle money.
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posted on
12/17/2019 7:08:22 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(Charity comes from wealth, or producing more than we consume.)
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