Comment on NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft
JTskulk@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“NASA aims to gather data that could revolutionize air travel, paving the way for a new generation of commercial aircraft that can travel faster than the speed of sound.”
HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Which is definitely just a cover because for some reason they don’t want to admit they’re actually developing supersonic stealth planes for the military. Probably because they’re using people’s tax money to do it and tons of Americans are already sick of how much funding their military gets.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 months ago
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.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well hiding the giant boom is probably a good stepping stone to that so yeah
grayman@lemmy.world 5 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.