Without looking at the picture to intently, the nose sort of snuck up on me. It’s cool that they are trying to make a plane that can break the sound barrier without a large sonic boom but what does this tech demonstrator really have to offer? Are we going to shape airliners like this?
Commercially speaking, an upsacled evolution on this concept would make a killing in the executive jet market if it came in at a reasonably competitive price point, considering the ~halved travel times.
In the military market, a downsized unmanned version could be handy for ISR. Also, technology assets developed with this program could probably be applied handily to supersonic cruise misses, tanker drones, loyal wingman, ect.
Scaling up a plane will not result in a linear scaling of the physics. Commercial supersonic travel is obsolete since people can do online meetings now. VR tech is coming out soon that will narrow the gap between online and face-to-face meetings.
If they can make a business jet that can carry 30-
50 passengers at 3-5x the cost of an equivalent first class ticket, can legally go supersonic above land and has at least the range of the concorde, it could fill a niche. There are 2x passengers per year today than there were when concorde retired. Reducing the passenger count compared to the concorde will help with the economics and make it a smaller risk.
I would guess this has extremely low wave drag, could have very long range supercruise.
IMO the best use for something like this would be NORAD interceptor, able to cover large expanses of the northern US/Canada at supersonic speed.
Bigger planes have proportionally less drag due to square cube law (same reason you can make rocks float in the wind by grinding them into dust), this would actually scale up very well most likely.
>Commercial supersonic travel is obsolete since people can do online meetings now. VR tech is coming out soon that will narrow the gap between online and face-to-face meetings.
not replacement. it didn't replace business jets or regular air travel either. no idea if it will be comercially viable, but online/vr doesn't fill the space between business and passanger air travel like SST
>NASA whines endlessly about climate change >NASA spends hundreds of millions developing 'quiet sonic booms' to give to private companies who will develop supersonic aircraft that will spew tons of shit in the atmosphere over the US so the ultrarich (only people who will have access to these planes) will be able to fly from NYC to LA in 4 hours instead of 6
let me fly it (i have never flown a plane outside of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002)
That was the best one, so you're good to go
Bold. Perhaps too bold.
Its got the snoot, but does it droop?
No, it has a camera for the wienerpit view.
flies into enemy zeppelins and deflates them
>We must open up the air space to Russian jets, fellow air superiority fighters!
Without looking at the picture to intently, the nose sort of snuck up on me. It’s cool that they are trying to make a plane that can break the sound barrier without a large sonic boom but what does this tech demonstrator really have to offer? Are we going to shape airliners like this?
It's for the elite only. Apparently subsonic isn't good enough for them.
Commercially speaking, an upsacled evolution on this concept would make a killing in the executive jet market if it came in at a reasonably competitive price point, considering the ~halved travel times.
In the military market, a downsized unmanned version could be handy for ISR. Also, technology assets developed with this program could probably be applied handily to supersonic cruise misses, tanker drones, loyal wingman, ect.
Scaling up a plane will not result in a linear scaling of the physics. Commercial supersonic travel is obsolete since people can do online meetings now. VR tech is coming out soon that will narrow the gap between online and face-to-face meetings.
If they can make a business jet that can carry 30-
50 passengers at 3-5x the cost of an equivalent first class ticket, can legally go supersonic above land and has at least the range of the concorde, it could fill a niche. There are 2x passengers per year today than there were when concorde retired. Reducing the passenger count compared to the concorde will help with the economics and make it a smaller risk.
I would guess this has extremely low wave drag, could have very long range supercruise.
IMO the best use for something like this would be NORAD interceptor, able to cover large expanses of the northern US/Canada at supersonic speed.
Bigger planes have proportionally less drag due to square cube law (same reason you can make rocks float in the wind by grinding them into dust), this would actually scale up very well most likely.
>Commercial supersonic travel is obsolete since people can do online meetings now. VR tech is coming out soon that will narrow the gap between online and face-to-face meetings.
not replacement. it didn't replace business jets or regular air travel either. no idea if it will be comercially viable, but online/vr doesn't fill the space between business and passanger air travel like SST
>make stealth
>fly at low altitude and high speed into enemy airspace to frick shit up
Lasers, unironically
B-11 Lancer II
Well they both go 1,2 mach but Lancer can do it at sea level this thing will fly 55k feet
As outdated the idea of lancer is?...Still like it
Too lazy too photoshop, just stick a big sword on the end. Similar aerodynamics, just now you can slice things.
why? miltech is always far behind civtech, and most jets can beat it anyway, the booms a shock and awe
>miltech is always far behind civtech
lube it up and put it down my wiener
>NASA whines endlessly about climate change
>NASA spends hundreds of millions developing 'quiet sonic booms' to give to private companies who will develop supersonic aircraft that will spew tons of shit in the atmosphere over the US so the ultrarich (only people who will have access to these planes) will be able to fly from NYC to LA in 4 hours instead of 6
explain this shit to me
They hate you and are willing to use any excuse to make your life worse.
>he thinks it's not skunkworks spin off
lmao
fill the nose with potassium nitrate and fly it into the kremlin
Jet Jousting