NASA's X-59 research jet is designed to travel faster than sound while muffling the resulting sonic boom. The space agency is exploring whether the plane's tech could also apply to future commercial airliners - allowing travellers to cross the Atlantic at speeds greater than 1,500mph.
Now, companies including Boeing and Rolls-Royce have been contracted to come up with a potential roadmap for making such trips a reality - including design concepts for supersonic passenger planes.
"It's important to innovate responsibly so we return benefits to travellers and do no harm to the environment."X-59 aircraft parked near the runway at Lockheed Martin's California facility. Pic: Lockheed MartinThe announcement comes just weeks after X-59 was moved from its construction site to the so-called flight line, the space between the hangar and runway at a Lockheed Martin facility in California.
Peter Coen, NASA's Quesst mission integration manager, has said his team are"ready to write a new chapter in the history of supersonic flight".It holds the record for fastest commercial flight between New York and London, completing it in two hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds in 1996.
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