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NASA Wants To Get Supersonic With New Passenger Jet (networkworld.com)

Posted by yaelk on from the supersonic dept.

coondoggie writes: NASA wants to put a supersonic passenger jet back in the sky that promises to a soft thump or supersonic heartbeat as the agency called it - rather than the disruptive boom currently associated with such high-speed flight. The 'low-boom' aircraft known as Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) will be built by a team led by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. It will cost $20 million to develop baseline aircraft requirements and a preliminary aircraft design.

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  1. Re:This will only help the wealthy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Concord is a variety of grape. Indeed, there can be some expensive wines out there. This story is about fast planes, however. Maybe you mean the Concorde?

  2. "... sky that promises to a soft thump ..." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The only thing any of us should "promise to a soft thump" are our heads hitting our desks after we all get aneurysms trying to figure out how the hell to parse these inane and poorly edited summaries.