NASA moves a step closer to supersonic passenger flights

I like the technological idea, but not the idea of catering to the super rich by giving them convenience at the cost of increasing their carbon footprint by another order or magnitude. This is tax money funding toys for the parasitic criminal billionaires.

america will do anything but invest in public transport huh

We need bullet trains, not more passenger jets.

Instead of more luxury boondoggles for the rich, funded with tax money from people who will never afford it, how about we focus on decarbonizing air travel for the commoners? Fuck supersonic flight, use public money to develop a hydrogen powered regular speed transoceanic airliner so that regular people can have a sustainable long haul air travel option instead of making the carbon footprint of the rich even higher.

A quarter billion dollars to build just a prototype and retread the Concorde fiasco with all its attendant environmental destruction. What does this have to do with exploring space, which is what I thought was NASA's mission?

what if concorde but more technology

Just what we needed, another pointless carbon-guzzling ride to amuse the undeserving rich.

Whose going to be able to afford this? Air fare is already expensive.

Also, why is NASA doing this with tax dollars?

Is this stupid or am I stupid and missing something obvious?

I'm interested to see how this plane performs compared to the Concord. It'll be interesting to find out how bad the maintenance will be.

Also the criticism and the "whatabout other important things" people commenting here should know that more than one type of research can be performed at the same time. This is an aerodynamics problem. The other problems related pollution from engines, fuel sources, and environmental impact are also being worked in parallel. A planet of 8 billion people is able to work on many problems and ideas in parallel without having one be a detriment over another. It's not like an aeronautical engineer can be repurposed to be a fuel chemist!

Wait, I’ve seen this one

Just last month I heard of United's own supersonic plan 'Boom'. Concerning name aside I am interested to read more about the tech behind it.

But we already had the Concorde.... It stopped flying due to fuel costs and limited flight paths only allowed over oceans, no super sonic flying over land. Hopefully NASA has fixed these issues...

JFC, can we have a carbon tax already?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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But now, the thought of supersonic travel has been mooted again – by none other than NASA, which reckons that New York-London flight could take as little as 90 minutes in the future.

The space agency has confirmed in a blog post about its “high-speed strategy” that it has recently studied whether commercial flights at up to Mach 4 – over 3,000 miles per hour – could take off in the future.

In the same way, she added, the new studies will “refresh those looks at technology roadmaps and identify additional research needs for a broader high-speed range.”

The next phase will also consider “safety, efficiency, economic and societal considerations,” said Mary Jo Long-Davis, manager of NASA’s Hypersonic Technology Project, adding that “It’s important to innovate responsibly.”

In July, Lockheed Martin completed the build of NASA’s X-59 test aircraft, which is designed to turn sonic booms into mere thumps, in the hope of making overland supersonic flight a possibility.

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I mean look, it's cool that they're doing this and all, and the idea or a trans Atlantic flight in 3 hours is neat for sure ... but air travel is already really damn fast, could we focus on making it less shit in other ways?

• Can we get the carbon footprint down so it doesn't contribute so much to the end of the world?

• Can we cut fuel costs significantly so it doesn't have to be so miserably expensive?

Just call FFS, we don't need this.

A step closer to achieving something that was already achieved 52 years ago! Concorde 2, Supersonic Boogaloo.

Almost 60 years after the first fly of the Concorde

I want r34 of this thing letting slip a sonic thump over a dirty dirty billionaire.

Yate Haugan

We need faster ways to destroy the atmosphere!