NASA and Lockheed Martin formally debuted the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft Friday. Using this one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims to

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    11 months ago

    I think that is definitely just a cover because they don’t want to admit they’re actually developing supersonic stealth planes for the military.

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      1611 months ago

      I think that is definitely just a cover because they don’t want to admit they’re they’ve actually developing developed supersonic stealth planes for the military.

      Ftfy

      What they reveal openly is usually from years ago. A couple aerospace friends are always like "yea, we heard scuttlebut about that about 5 years ago, so that means it was already a thing 10 years ago*, haha.

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      1011 months ago

      Well hiding the giant boom is probably a good stepping stone to that so yeah

    • @grayman
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      111 months ago

      From the eyewitness accounts of whistle blowers, traditional propulsion and modern propulsion are old tech compared to what they have today. Silent and extremely fast already exists.