NASA's quiet X-59 supersonic jet hit 0.98 Mach during a recent test flight, marking a major milestone in the race to bring supersonic travel back over populated areas

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m very happy for the rich few who would be able to afford this

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  • Strider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Don’t envy them. It’s a very stressful life.

    (/s, obv.)

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• HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is a 50 yo technology, what’s new?

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  • Skunk@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It tries to lessen the supersonic boom so that, unlike Concorde, you can fly Mach 1+ over populated areas.

    For civil aviation use, or most likely for a multi billionaire private jet rather than an airliner.

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