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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. It will be just as cost effective as the SLS by schwit1 · · Score: 1, Troll

    More pork for Lockheed Martin.