Comment on NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft

peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  One of the material issues with supersonic is friction heat buildup. Probably can’t have a front windshield at that speed.

  Cameras and instrumentation will do just fine tho

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  • Ducky@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The heat is from compression, not friction. And besides that, this thing is only flying at mach 1.5, there are TONS of aircraft that fly at those speeds (and much faster) with windshields.

    The reason it doesn’t have a front windshield is because the change in shape of the aircraft at the windshield, to be more vertical, was disrupting their method of reducing the sonic boom. The aircraft needs the shape it has, so a windshield would have to be like 20 feet long to offer any forward visibility.

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    • TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Neat. Thanks for the info!

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  With that huge honker of a nose, it’s not like you’d see much anyway. Entire cities could hide behind that

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• Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Looks like there’s a forward facing camera.

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• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  but other than test pilots, who are you going to get to fly a plane that lacks a forward view?

  This plane will only be flown by test pilots. Its a technology demonstrator. Researchers build one of these to test concepts in physics in the real world.

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• dasJot@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No instruments, just a microphone to talk to ChatGPT.

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  • rckclmbr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Basically Stealth IRL.

    BTW, fucking coolest, most underrated movie ever IMO

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• Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  With that speed you aren’t able to react to anything visible in the flightpath anyway 💨

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  • AstroTechie@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not supersonic during landing or taxing, which I guess is when a direct view would be more useful.

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    • Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wasn’t serious.

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• z00s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You know planes fly at night yeah, when you can’t see things

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  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh of course. Landing might not be fun though.

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  laughs in P-51 mustang

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