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How NASA’s X-59 recycled decades-old plane parts to make silent supersonic flight possible
Fast Company ^ | November 11, 2024 | Jesus Diaz

Posted on 11/14/2024 11:01:16 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 11/14/2024 11:01:16 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: 04-Bravo; 1FASTGLOCK45; 1stFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet; 2sheds; 60Gunner; 6AL-4V; A.A. Cunningham; ...

AVIATION PING!..................


2 posted on 11/14/2024 11:01:36 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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VIDEO................

https://youtu.be/xTp5QAHfcPc


3 posted on 11/14/2024 11:02:54 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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the X-59 Quesst mission is poised to tackle one of aviation’s biggest challenges: making supersonic flight over land feasible again.

Then I suppose they had better address leg room.

4 posted on 11/14/2024 11:08:45 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger

It strikes my eye like something straight out of 1977.


5 posted on 11/14/2024 11:28:11 AM PST by TalBlack (Time to use the Law and the Power. Good luck Mr. President.)
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To: TalBlack

Don’t walk in front of it.

It’ll put your eye out................


6 posted on 11/14/2024 11:31:32 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: TalBlack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_X-3_Stiletto

The Douglas X-3 Stiletto is a 1950s United States experimental jet aircraft

Douglas designed the X-3 with the goal of a maximum speed of approximately 2,000 mph (3,200 km/h),[2] but it was seriously underpowered for this purpose and could not even exceed Mach 1 in level flight.[3


7 posted on 11/14/2024 11:35:58 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Red Badger

Parallel parking will be challenging.


8 posted on 11/14/2024 11:59:09 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.” Psalm 118:8)
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I learned to parallel park in a huge 72 Buick Grand Estate Station Wagon!..................


9 posted on 11/14/2024 12:02:26 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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50 years later and it’s only 70% as fast as Concorde. Even Boom Technology’s Overture will only be 85% as fast as Concorde.


10 posted on 11/14/2024 12:19:01 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: Red Badger; SunkenCiv

That silent sonic boom you just heard was from a Lockheed publicist hurriedly rewriting an advertisement for a NASA test plane.

Knowing Elon Musk will be looking at the next few NASA budgets.


11 posted on 11/14/2024 12:49:44 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Yeah, reminded me of the X-3
As a kid, I thought it was the most cool aircraft ever.


12 posted on 11/14/2024 12:54:01 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

I hear tha Elon is offering free parallel parking on any new space craft built. Maybe Lockheed can work a deal …


13 posted on 11/14/2024 12:55:45 PM PST by simi_ed (Change the NRA)
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To: Paal Gulli

70% as fast, but a lot quieter.


14 posted on 11/14/2024 1:25:34 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: Red Badger
but it relies on ancient parts to make it all happen.

How about the A-10, 2.0?

15 posted on 11/14/2024 1:57:28 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: TalBlack

Now look again and think “Lawn Dart”.


16 posted on 11/14/2024 2:42:30 PM PST by T. Rustin Noone (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Red Badger

It’s very, very pointy.


17 posted on 11/14/2024 5:21:19 PM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Delta 21

None more pointy.

/Spinal Tap


18 posted on 11/14/2024 5:28:49 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: TalBlack

We lived close to the Air Force Base. There was no restrictions at all. I was a kid and I loved it!


19 posted on 11/14/2024 5:31:46 PM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: T. Rustin Noone; Chode; SkyDancer; Carriage Hill; All
Now look again and think “Lawn Dart”.

And telling Mom that it impailed your foot. After you had been warned about it.

20 posted on 11/14/2024 6:36:30 PM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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