Category: quiet

NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet is cleared for final assembly

Post author By Randall
Post date December 17, 2019
Categories In assembly, jet, lockheed martin, Nasa, quiet, Research, sonic boom, supersonic, Tech, test, tomorrow, Transportation, x-59, x-59quesst, x-plane

[ad_1] This is NASA’s first large-scale, piloted x-plane (or experimental aircraft) in more than three decades, and its goal is to reduce the loudness of a sonic boom to more of a sonic thump. When the long, slender jet transitions to supersonic speed, it will make about as much noise a car door closing, and […]

Kitty Hawk’s ‘Heaviside’ is an ultra-quiet electric flying machine

Post author By Randall
Post date October 4, 2019
Categories In flying car, gear, heaviside, kitty hawk, larry page, project heaviside, quiet, sebastian thrun, Tech, Transportation, vtol

[ad_1] It’s also tiny, as you can make out in a picture with a person crouching next to the aircraft with seating for one. TechCrunch got up close and personal with Heaviside, noting that at the moment the cockpit seats its passenger on bare carbon fiber. Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun told TechCrunch “The calculus […]