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This Guy Built the Legendary Concorde Supersonic out of LEGO
This Guy Built the Legendary Concorde Supersonic out of LEGO

12 Jul 2021, 16:31 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / Someone built a spot-on version of the legendary Concorde supersonic passenger aircraft and it looks just as good as it did in the air.

 
Fluid Dynamics Sim Show How NASA’s Supersonic Plane Will Cut Through the Air
Fluid Dynamics Sim Show How NASA’s Supersonic Plane Will Cut Through the Air

30 Jun 2021, 09:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says it is working on a database that will contain “simulations for all possible combinations of the settings that a pilot uses" when flying the X-59

 
Here’s the View from Inside NASA’s X-59 Supersonic Plane Engine Inlet
Here’s the View from Inside NASA’s X-59 Supersonic Plane Engine Inlet

17 May 2021, 12:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA shares a view of the engine inlet that will go into the X-59 supersonic airplane meant to test the low-boom technology i is working on

 
NASA to Fly Supersonic X-59 Airplane Over American Cities
NASA to Fly Supersonic X-59 Airplane Over American Cities

12 May 2021, 08:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA selects the company that will be planning the upcoming flights over American cities of the X-59 experimental airplane

 
Supersonic Air Force One Could Carry POTUS and Staff as Soon as Next Decade
Supersonic Air Force One Could Carry POTUS and Staff as Soon as Next Decade

9 Apr 2021, 12:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The U.S. Air Force's Presidential and Executive Airlift Directorate tasked a company called Exosonic with the development of a supersonic Air Force One

 
3,000-MPH Commercial Airliner Better Be More Than Just Another Concept
3,000-MPH Commercial Airliner Better Be More Than Just Another Concept

31 Mar 2021, 15:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American company Aerion presented this week a new supersonic airplane concept, the AS3; it should be capable of Mach 4 and ready by 2030

 
A Different Kind of Used Car Bargain: Bloodhound LSR Supersonic Car Is For Sale
A Different Kind of Used Car Bargain: Bloodhound LSR Supersonic Car Is For Sale

27 Jan 2021, 07:57 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Whoever buys the jet-powered vehicle will also be taking over the project in a new attempt at breaking the land speed record and, hopefully, hit 1,000 mph

 
1953 Fiat Ghia Supersonic Once Had a Chevy V8 Under the Hood, Worth $2.2M
1953 Fiat Ghia Supersonic Once Had a Chevy V8 Under the Hood, Worth $2.2M

14 Oct 2020, 15:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / 1953 Fiat 8V Ghia Supersonic once owned by GM designer Henry Lauve of Corvette fame once had its engine swapped for a Chevy V8

 
Mach 3 Civilian Aircraft Design Unveiled by Virgin Galactic
Mach 3 Civilian Aircraft Design Unveiled by Virgin Galactic

3 Aug 2020, 14:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Virgin Galactic Mach 3 airplane in the works with engines supplied by Rolls-Royce, the same company that powered the defunct Concorde

 
NASA Clears for Production Its First Piloted X-Plane in Three Decades
NASA Clears for Production Its First Piloted X-Plane in Three Decades

17 Dec 2019, 10:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) airplane gets green light for production from NASA top brass, first flight in 2021

 
Concorde vs. Concordski: Both Flawed, One More so Than the Other
Concorde vs. Concordski: Both Flawed, One More so Than the Other

30 Nov 2019, 00:05 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Concordski may have been the first supersonic airliner to take to the sky, but it was Concorde that actually made more business case for itself

 
Bloodhound LSR On-Board Video Shows 628 MPH Desert Test Run
Bloodhound LSR On-Board Video Shows 628 MPH Desert Test Run

27 Nov 2019, 12:57 UTC · By: Alex Carausu / With such a promising start, the next stop is surely going to be the world record. Until then we can only savor this 628 MPH cockpit ride in the Bloodhound

 
X-59 QueSST Supersonic Airplane Cockpit Revealed, It Has 4K Monitor for a Window
X-59 QueSST Supersonic Airplane Cockpit Revealed, It Has 4K Monitor for a Window

26 Jun 2019, 09:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / X-59 QueSST supersonic airplane to use a 4K monitor instead of a forward-facing window, called eXternal Visibility System (XVS)

 
NASA Readies X-59 Quiet Supersonic Airplane Development Timeline
NASA Readies X-59 Quiet Supersonic Airplane Development Timeline

20 Nov 2018, 13:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA confirms the X-59 quiet supersonic airplane will be ready in 2021, to be tested over select inhabited areas in the U.S.

 
French Aerospace Lab to Make Sonic Boom Predictions for NASA
French Aerospace Lab to Make Sonic Boom Predictions for NASA

19 Jul 2018, 13:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA tasks a French aerospace lab with finding ways to determining where sonic booms will be heard as supersonic aircraft fly over land

 
NASA Renames Supersonic Test X-Plane as X-59 QueSST
NASA Renames Supersonic Test X-Plane as X-59 QueSST

29 Jun 2018, 08:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's Low Boom Flight Demonstration (LBFD) experimental airplane gets named X-59 in honor of the iconic X-planes of the past.

 
NASA to Present New Supersonic Aircraft on April 3
NASA to Present New Supersonic Aircraft on April 3

30 Mar 2018, 08:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA to announce design and manufacturing plans for the Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator (LBFD) next week, preparing for the creation of the QueSST X-Plane.

 
Is Germany Working on a New Concorde Aircraft?
Is Germany Working on a New Concorde Aircraft?

20 Aug 2015, 17:05 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Concorde has been the only commercial supersonic aircraft to ever fly the sky, but this could soon change if this German concept gets into production

 
Is Airbus Planning to Bring Back the Concorde?
Is Airbus Planning to Bring Back the Concorde?

5 Aug 2015, 11:35 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Concorde was one of only two supersonic aircraft that ever entered commercial service. Yet, it was still about two times slower than what Airbus has in mind

 
Supersonic Submarine Could Go From Shanghai to San Francisco in 100 Minutes
Supersonic Submarine Could Go From Shanghai to San Francisco in 100 Minutes

25 Aug 2014, 16:57 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Chinese scientists have allegedly found a way to use the technology developed by the Soviet military during the cold war called supercavitation. The recent discovery is reportedly an important step ...