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A Supersonic Aircraft with a Silencer
Youtube.com ^ | April 20, 2021 | Dark Footage

Posted on 04/21/2021 10:07:12 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult

The Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft is America's newest experimental plane.

A time-lapse video released by NASA in early 2020 shows the progress of the X-59, which has been referred to as the X-59 Supersonic Frankenstein. It’s assembly is using scavenged parts from iconic aircraft such as the F-16 Fighting Falcon, the NASA T-38 Talon, and the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk.

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KEYWORDS: aircraft; planes; supersonic; x59
Several years ago Rush mentioned the concept of a supersonic plane with little or no sonic boom. Looks like it's finally going to happen.
1 posted on 04/21/2021 10:07:12 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

If you watch NASA TV you would think that only women are working on the X-59 , only women working on everything


2 posted on 04/21/2021 10:11:44 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

I assumed it was only a matter of time. Frankly, I am surprised it took this long. It must have been a harder nut to crack than I thought.


3 posted on 04/21/2021 10:12:05 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: butlerweave
"...only women working on everything..."

That is why the majority of children are a bunch of undisciplined, ignorant, troublemakers.

4 posted on 04/21/2021 10:16:56 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: butlerweave

yea i noticed that myself


5 posted on 04/21/2021 10:47:12 AM PDT by mowowie (Press 2 for deportation)
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6 posted on 04/21/2021 10:47:36 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

And when he says “earth shattering”, he isn’t kidding.


7 posted on 04/21/2021 11:15:04 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Red Badger

B-17 at the 3:43 mark? That’s REALLY scavenging parts!


8 posted on 04/21/2021 11:36:35 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
No sonic boom.....Elon Musk said the same thing recently.

. https://www.foxnews.com/science/elon-musk-details-800-mph-hyperloop-transportation-system

9 posted on 04/21/2021 12:06:28 PM PDT by irish guard
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A Lockmart project for $247.5 million


10 posted on 04/21/2021 12:10:06 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Hey, maybe Biden was right and we’ll have commercial airplanes traveling 21,000 miles per hour within a decade. ;-)


11 posted on 04/21/2021 12:15:09 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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Ben Rich wrote that one of the SR-71’s (or an A-12 maybe) caused a sonic boom that topple a factory smokestack and it killed a guy or a couple of guys. They had to pay their families.

Poor guy(s) were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.


12 posted on 04/21/2021 12:55:20 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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13 posted on 04/21/2021 1:04:07 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Clickbait. Junk Science.


14 posted on 04/21/2021 1:16:24 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (Deplorably Neanderthal)
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