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NASA Poised to Break Sound Barrier in New Way
Seventy-five years ago, a sonic boom thundered for the first time over the high desert of California. On the ground below, it has been written, a small group of researchers from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) – NASA’s predecessor organization – were the first to hear the thunder crack coming from the Bell X-1 rocket plane flying faster than the speed of sound. (www.nasa.gov) More...
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70years ago BOEING 747 was invented
The Bell X-1 deserves all its acclaim but was not the first aircraft through the speed of sound. It was however the first aircraft documented to have done it in level flight and with all the test equipment it carried it answered many questions in the area between subsonic and transonic flight.
As a kid in the 60s, we heard them all the time. I never thought of them as annoying. The jets were always very high and the boom was fairly muted. I know they can be VERY loud if you are closer.
But 70years ago BOEING was invented
I grew up in northern Florida, and I remember the Space Shuttle gave us a boom kind of like that after one mission. Kid me was very excited.
Quote - "“We’ve kind of been stuck with our airliners at about Mach .8 for the past almost 50 years, so being able to get there – wherever there is – much faster is still kind of an unfulfilled dream,” said Peter Coen, NASA’s mission integration manager for Quesst.
Guess being American this guy never heard of Concorde ! He seems to have suffered a 27 year mental block.
Guess being American this guy never heard of Concorde ! He seems to have suffered a 27 year mental block.
