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Startup Exosonic, which has been conducting experiments and studies to design a supersonic passenger aircraft that does not produce the noxious boom. Currently the US and most other countries prohibit non-military supersonic flight over land because the boom created by the airplane’s shockwave is a nuisance at best on the ground and at worst knocks pictures off the walls and rattles the windows.<\/p>\n
The headline for the linked article below is “Exosonic developing low-boom supersonic jet possibly to serve as \u2018Air Force One\u2019”, but what they’ve received is $1 million. In the world of aerospace research, that’ll barely keep the lights on for a few months.<\/p>\n
Exosonic says it is \u201cbuilding a quiet, Mach 1.8, 70-seat supersonic passenger aircraft that can fly supersonically overland and over water with a muted sonic boom.\u201d The company is also developing the aircraft as a supersonic commercial airliner, which it hopes to bring to market in the mid-2030s.<\/p>\n
The company says its jet would be able to fly at supersonic speeds without the window-shattering noise of a sonic boom by using technology similar to NASA\u2019s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Research Aircraft. Such technology is supposed to reduce sonic booms heard on the ground to a dampened thump, if the noise is heard at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This technology does have the potential to revolutionize air travel in the way the Concorde was supposed to. Combined with more powerful jet engines that allow supercruise (attaining supersonic speed without afterburners, such as the F-22 uses), it could become economically and socially feasible to make the flight from NY to LA in less than three hours.<\/p>\n
Source;\u00a0Flight Global<\/a> & Military.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"