#supersonic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #supersonic, aggregated by home.social.
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Wheels Up for X-59
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=wheels-up-for-x-59
<p>NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies over the Mojave Desert in California in this
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Holy Hound Hullaballoo, Batman. My feed is cartoonishly crowded with canines this morning.
That's fine. I can play this game, too.
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On January 21st was the 50th anniversary of Concorde's first commercial flight. 📆 What's your favorite #Concorde livery? ✈️ Do you want to know more about the potential revival of #supersonic commercial #aviation? What may the next gen supersonic #airliners look like? 🤔 What are their implications in terms of noise compatibility and #airport engineering? 🛫 Read our report on The Future of #Airports: A Vision of 2040 & 2070: https://www.alumni.enac.fr/en/publications/reports-and-studies/airports-5938. 💺 #airtravel #engineering #transportation
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✈️ On this day in 1976, the Concorde made its first commercial flight, connecting London and Paris in record time! 🌍 This iconic supersonic jet showcased the incredible potential of high-speed air travel and redefined the way we think about distance. Since the retirement of the Concorde, I hope for a revival of civilian supersonic flight technology. #Concorde #AviationHistory #supersonic
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NASA Chase Aircraft Ensures X-59’s Safety in Flight
As NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft continues a series of flight tests over the California high desert in 2026, its pilot will be flying with a buddy closely looking out for his safety.
https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/chase-aircraft-ensures-x-59-safety/
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NASA Chase Aircraft Ensures X-59’s Safety in Flight
As NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft continues a series of flight tests over the California high desert in 2026, its pilot will be flying with a buddy closely looking out for his safety.
https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/chase-aircraft-ensures-x-59-safety/
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NASA Chase Aircraft Ensures X-59’s Safety in Flight
As NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft continues a series of flight tests over the California high desert in 2026, its pilot will be flying with a buddy closely looking out for his safety.
https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/chase-aircraft-ensures-x-59-safety/
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NASA Chase Aircraft Ensures X-59’s Safety in Flight
As NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft continues a series of flight tests over the California high desert in 2026, its pilot will be flying with a buddy closely looking out for his safety.
https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/chase-aircraft-ensures-x-59-safety/
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NASA Chase Aircraft Ensures X-59’s Safety in Flight
As NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft continues a series of flight tests over the California high desert in 2026, its pilot will be flying with a buddy closely looking out for his safety.
https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/chase-aircraft-ensures-x-59-safety/
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#OnThisDay Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board (1960).
Commercial service of #Concorde, a Britis-French turbojet-powered #Supersonic passenger airliner, began (1976).
Happy Birthday Jack Nicklaus (1940). Nicknamed The Golden Bear, he is considered by many as the greatest #Golfer of all time.
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Enhancing #Parachutes by Instrumenting the #Canopy (#EPIC) is a #NASA project led by the Armstrong Flight Research Center to improve the safety and reliability of #Supersonic parachutes used for planetary missions, particularly to #Mars.
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Is #supersonic air #travel about to return, two decades after the last #Concorde flight? https://theconversation.com/is-supersonic-air-travel-about-to-return-two-decades-after-the-last-concorde-flight-269990 #aviation
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X-59 First Flight Media Resources
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/quesst/x-59-first-flight-media-resources/
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X-59 First Flight Media Resources
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/quesst/x-59-first-flight-media-resources/
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X-59 First Flight Media Resources
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/quesst/x-59-first-flight-media-resources/
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X-59 First Flight Media Resources
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/quesst/x-59-first-flight-media-resources/
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NASA’s X-59 Completes First Flight, Prepares for More Flight Testing
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NASA’s X-59 Completes Historic First Flight
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On Monday 17th November at 7.30pm in the Quaker Meeting House, Albert Road, Ashford, Kent we've got Guy Bartlett speaking about 'Concorde - The First Time Machine'. Visitors/non-members £4 cash on the door; this is a live in-person event and it will not be streamed or recorded. EVERYONE WELCOME! #history #aviation #supersonic #aeroplanes #flight #event #uk #kent #ashford #airplane #travel #transport
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First flight! Is the X-59 the shape of #supersonic things to come? https://cosmiclog.com/2025/10/29/super-quiet-x-59-supersonic-jet-makes-first-test-flight/ #NASA #LockheedMartin #X59 #Avgeek #Tech #Aerospace
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NASA’s one-of-a-kind X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft approaches first flight
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NASA X-59’s Latest Testing Milestone: Simulating Flight from the Ground
📷 Lockheed Martin / Garry Tice
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Escape From Yavin 4
In an ongoing tradition, let’s take another look at some Star Wars-inspired aerodynamics. This year it’s the TIE fighter’s turn. Here, researchers simulate the spacecraft trying to escape Yavin 4’s atmosphere at Mach 1.15. The research poster’s blue contours show pressure contours, with darker colors connoting higher pressures. The bright low pressure region immediately behind the craft suggests a difficult, high-drag ascent and a turbulent, subsonic wake despite the craft’s supersonic velocity. (Image credit: A. Martinez-Sanchez et al.)
#flowVisualization #fluidDynamics #numericalSimulation #physics #science #starWars #supersonic #turbulence
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Supersonic #airliners are trendy these days. XB-1 flew M>1.0 this year: https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/nasa-captures-stunning-new-image-of-shock-waves-from-next-gen-supersonic-plane-as-it-flies-across-the-sun. COMAC is studying low-boom technologies: https://aviationweek.com/aerospace/emerging-technologies/comac-studies-low-boom-supersonic-airliner-future-option.
But is there really a future for #supersonic air #transportation? And how could they fit in tomorrow's #airport context? Read our analyses in #TheFutureOfAirports: A Vision of 2040 & 2070: https://www.alumni.enac.fr/en/publications/reports-and-studies/airports-5938. Don't miss Appendix K exploring airport #infrastructure compatibility!
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✈️ CHINA
🔴 C949: Beijing's Supersonic Jet Enters the Race🔸 China’s COMAC unveils C949: faster & quieter than Concorde, with 50% more range.
🔸 Jet aims to bypass bans by reducing sonic boom with a curved body.
🔸 Other projects: NASA’s X-59 (Mach 1.4) & Boom’s Overture (deal with 3 airlines).#China #Supersonic #COMAC #C949 #Concorde #Boom #NASA #X59 #Overture #Aviation
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"Boomless Cruise: How Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 breaks the sound barrier quietly" by AeroTime - #XB1 test flight had sensors monitoring on the ground which confirmed no sonic boom reached the ground during three times it exceeded Mach 1. Using subsonic speed longer for climb, they reached Mach 1+ above the altitude where booms refract back up before reaching the ground. A nice new trick for potential #supersonic air #travel over land. https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/boom-supersonic-boomless-cruise #aviation #avgeek
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@bscholl
Boom! We cracked it! Today we are introducing Boomless Cruise—supersonic flights up to 50% faster with no audible sonic boom.
We quietly (har har) demo'd this on XB-1's first supersonic flight—three times actually. 🧵👇
#BoomAero #XB1 Silent #Supersonic 🏆
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Weekly output: Boom Supersonic’s XB-1, Comcast low latency, painstaking passkey progress
This has been a strange, sad and shocking week in the nation’s capital–first the mid-air collision outside National Airport Wednesday that left 67 people dead and ended a nearly 16-year streak without fatal crashes by U.S. airlines, then Elon Musk’s attempts to stage what I have to call a digital coup at the Treasury Department and the Agency for International Development.
Patreon readers got an extra post this week: my annual breakdown of last year’s income according to the business models of my freelance clients.
1/28/2025: Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 Testbed Plane Breaks the Sound Barrier, PCMag
Having Boom bump this test flight from Monday to Tuesday gave me a little extra time to check two descriptions of the XB-1: “independently developed” (Boom did this without government dollars or direction, unlike the Northrop F-20 fighter that was built with private money but was based on the earlier, taxpayer-funded F-5, and which that company developed at the request of the Pentagon) and “exceed Mach 1” (XB-1 sustained that achievement in level flight, unlike the Bombardier business-jet prototype that cracked the sound barrier in shallow dives in 2021).
1/29/2025: Comcast Upgrade Promises Ultra-Low Lag Xfinity Internet for Video Calls, VR, Games, PCMag
Comcast’s announcement of this new feature was shockingly short on details, but a company publicist was willing to answer e-mail after e-mail as I realized the data points I needed to write this post.
2/1/2025: The Passkey Future Is Here, But Some Companies Still Make It Too Complicated, PCMag
A year after I interviewed FIDO Alliance CEO Andrew Shikiar at a conference in D.C. about identity and authentication, I sat down with him at the 2025 version of this conference to discuss what the industry had and had not accomplished since January.
#AndrewShikiar #authentication #BoomSupersonic #Comcast #FIDOAlliance #infosec #lowLag #lowLatency #Mach1 #passkeys #passwordless #supersonic #XB1
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Hackaday Links: February 2, 2025 https://hackaday.com/2025/02/02/hackaday-links-february-2-2025/ #HackadayColumns #Hackadaylinks #hackadaylinks #wavefunction #robotserver #IPbullying #kidnapping #supermario #supersonic #testflight #abduction #asteroid #electron #nintendo #orbitals #Roadster #quantum #Slider #tesla #boom #XB-1
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Hackaday Links: February 2, 2025 - All things considered, it was a very bad week for aviation here in the United Stat... - https://hackaday.com/2025/02/02/hackaday-links-february-2-2025/ #hackadaycolumns #hackadaylinks #wavefunction #robotserver #ipbullying #kidnapping #supermario #supersonic #testflight #abduction #asteroid #electron #nintendo #orbitals #roadster #quantum #slider #tesla #boom #xb-1
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This is almost certainly the last stage ever of fromis_9. No wonder members of the audience and of the group are in tears. I will miss them!
Nevertheless, this was a good stage on which to end. Even though "Supersonic" is not my favourite of their title tracks - I prefer "Feel Good" -- it's still a good song. I also liked their styling; the choice of elegant boots and heels, as opposed to the chunky and clunky, was inspired.
#Kpop #Fromis9 #Supersonic #KpopStyling #GirlGroups
https://youtu.be/N7mZmPxiB00?
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#boomsupersonic #supersonic #planes #flight #aviation #concorde #jet #aircraft #flying #technology #science #aeroplane #airplane #XB-1 #supersonicflight #soundbarrier #sonicboom #overture
I’ve been following “Boom Supersonic” and “Tokamak Energy” on the internet for years now, and it’s great to see the breakthrough from Boom today. Hopefully Overture will be a lot nearer, and supersonic passenger flights will soon be flying again!https://news.sky.com/story/new-concorde-prototype-jet-breaks-sound-barrier-for-first-time-13298478
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@hkrn
Err, do you mean the THIRD civil aircraft to 'go supersonic'?!
#idiots #Concorde #TU144 #aircraft #flight #supersonic
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#Tupolev Tu-144 CCCP-77112 #technikmuseum #sinsheim #tu144 #avgeek #aviation #aircraft #airshow #concordski #supersonic #travel #germany #deutschland #photography (Instagram 27.07.2016)
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'The Death Trap' Dangerous Jet #CombatTraining Dramatically Increases Over #TohonoOodham Nation
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Oct. 17, 2024
SELLS, Arizona -- "The #USMilitary has dramatically increased its dangerous jet combat fighting over the heart of the Tohono O'odham Nation, with combat jets, a private #corporation and a plane labeled as "the death trap," due to safety violations.
"Tohono O'odham who live below say the #SonicBlasts are breaking the plaster in their traditional homes. Dangerous flares endanger all life below, including the #EndangeredSpecies of #SonoranPronghorn and more. With the risk of deadly crashes, Tohono O'odham are at risk below, including those in the community of #Pisinemo this week.
"The U.S. Air Force now plans to expand its dangerous use of the #airspace over Tohono O'odham, #Apache and #Yaqui communities in #Arizona. #SacredPlaces including #BaboquivariPeak on the Tohono O'odham Nation are among those at risk.
"The enormous #Goldwater#ange -- 1.9 million acres in the #SonoranDesert west of the Tohono O'odham Nation -- was set aside for U.S. military training, yet the military is consistently using Tohono O'odham Nation airspace.
The #USAirForce wants to authorize more #supersonic blasts training at lower altitudes. The dangerous expansion includes airspace over #NativeAmericanNations, and scenic regions of Arizona and western #NewMexico."Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-death-trap-dangerous-jet-combat.html#ProtectTheSacred #Environment #ProtectNature #NoWar #NoisePollution #TohonoOodhamNation #SanCarlosApache #PascuaYaqui #ATAC #PlaneCrashes #F16s #AirIsLife
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Efficiency gains from engines will still be vital for the industry.
The most marked change in the appearance of #engines could be the return of the open #propeller.
The design dispenses with the #nacelle
– the cover
– to allow for a bigger fan that offers more propulsive force.Superficially, it will look like existing turboprop engines,
but with the ability to fly at Mach 0.8, or 80% of the speed of sound
– the same as current jet engines.#CFM, a joint-venture between America’s General Electric and France’s Safran, has said that its open fan #Rise engine could theoretically reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions by 20%.
The company says it can reduce noise, which put paid to a previous prototype in 1986.
It will still have to persuade regulators and passengers that the engines will be safe if a blade breaks in midair.
As well as radical changes to airframes or engines, manufacturers are constantly looking for ways to salami-slice #fuel burn via small gains.
#Winglets, the curved tips of wings, were first introduced in the 1970s in response to the then oil crisis,
mimicking birds’ wings to reduce drag.The split winglets on the 737 family since 2014 can reduce fuel burn by as much as 2% during a long journey, according to the Seattle-based manufacturer Aviation Partners.
(For plane-spotters, they double as the easiest way to distinguish a 737 from an A320.)
Birds have had millennia to evolve the ideal features for efficient flight,
so aviation designers have constantly used them for inspiration.Airbus is experimenting with #gust #sensors on the front of the aircraft to register during turbulence,
with automatic responses from control surfaces of the wing,
similar to a bird’s constant adjustments to movements in the air.#Concorde, which flew on only a limited number of routes, was the last passenger plane in service with a truly distinctive design.
The supersonic jet, which had swept-back, delta wings, was retired in 2003.
#Boom #Supersonic, a startup, is testing the technologies for a proposed “son of Concorde” with a similar look.
That plane would only ever be a niche service, flying 80 passengers at a time on premium routes.
But there is a possibility that Boeing and Airbus take radically different approaches to the workhorses that carry billions of passengers each year.
If the manufacturers go in different directions, then passengers might start paying serious attention to plane design, says Addison Schonland, an analyst who tracks the industry at AirInsight.
“I don’t think we’ve ever had a situation before, to look at an aeroplane and say, ‘that’s completely different’,” he says.
“How will people react to seeing those novel shapes?”
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#Airbus #JetZero #Delft #University #McKinsey #fuel #efficiency #Boeing #truss #transonic -
BAC/Aerospatiale Concorde #photography #airandspace #aircraft #airplane #airplanes #avgeek #aviationphotography #concorde #french #planes #tu144 #british #commercial #highlight #jet #mach2 #passengers #supersonic (Flickr 08.07.2016) https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/28087338882
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BAC/Aerospatiale Concorde #photography #airandspace #aircraft #airplane #airplanes #avgeek #aviationphotography #concorde #french #planes #tu144 #british #commercial #highlight #jet #mach2 #passengers #supersonic (Flickr 08.07.2016) https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/28087338882
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BAC/Aerospatiale Concorde #photography #airandspace #aircraft #airplane #airplanes #avgeek #aviationphotography #concorde #french #planes #tu144 #british #commercial #highlight #jet #mach2 #passengers #supersonic (Flickr 08.07.2016) https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/28087338882
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BAC/Aerospatiale Concorde #photography #airandspace #aircraft #airplane #airplanes #avgeek #aviationphotography #concorde #french #planes #tu144 #british #commercial #highlight #jet #mach2 #passengers #supersonic (Flickr 08.07.2016) https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/28087338882
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BAC/Aerospatiale Concorde #photography #airandspace #aircraft #airplane #airplanes #avgeek #aviationphotography #concorde #french #planes #tu144 #british #commercial #highlight #jet #mach2 #passengers #supersonic (Flickr 08.07.2016) https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/28087338882
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 #photography #airandspace #aircraft #airplanes #avgeek #aviationphotography #mikoyangurevich #planes #vietnam #airtoaircombat #angola #bulgaria #china #cuba #eastgermany #egypt #highlight #india #iraq #jetfighter #mach2 #maneuverability #mig21 #northkorea #ołówek #polish #romania #russian #soviet #stringinstrument #supersonic #sweptwing #worldspeedrecord (Flickr 08.07.2016) https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/28273313376
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 #photography #airandspace #aircraft #airplanes #avgeek #aviationphotography #mikoyangurevich #planes #vietnam #airtoaircombat #angola #bulgaria #china #cuba #eastgermany #egypt #highlight #india #iraq #jetfighter #mach2 #maneuverability #mig21 #northkorea #ołówek #polish #romania #russian #soviet #stringinstrument #supersonic #sweptwing #worldspeedrecord (Flickr 08.07.2016) https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/28273313376
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 #photography #airandspace #aircraft #airplanes #avgeek #aviationphotography #mikoyangurevich #planes #vietnam #airtoaircombat #angola #bulgaria #china #cuba #eastgermany #egypt #highlight #india #iraq #jetfighter #mach2 #maneuverability #mig21 #northkorea #ołówek #polish #romania #russian #soviet #stringinstrument #supersonic #sweptwing #worldspeedrecord (Flickr 08.07.2016) https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/28273313376
