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NASA’s X-Plane to revive air travel faster than speed of sound
NASA just awarded Lockheed Martin a $247.5 million contract to build the X-Plane, an aircraft faster than the speed of sound. The contract states that LM will refine, build and test the experimental aircraft, also known as “Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator”, under the wing of the aerospace company. The proposed plane, based on a preliminary design […]
AS2: countdown to world’s first supersonic business jet is go!
Like most people, I thought I had missed the boat – or plane in this case – of ever smashing the sound barrier, when the last Concorde was taken out of commission back in 2003. But, with Lockheed Martin and Aerions’ recent announcement of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore the development of the AS2 business jet, it looks like supersonic travel is back on the agenda in civil aviation.
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