NASA - X-59

 NASA supersonic flightNASA's experimental X-59 aircraft outside a hangar.

NASA’s experimental ‘silent’ supersonic jet X-59 moves into flight line

The space agency on Wednesday released a sequence of images showing its experimental X-59 aircraft sitting on the flight line at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in California. The flight line refers to the space between the hangar and the runway.

The aircraft is designed to demonstrate technology that will allow supersonic flight while reducing the sonic boom to a “quiet sonic thump,” according to NASA.

NASA supersonic flight Front view of the X-59 aircraft.

“Sonic boom” refers to the sound that is associated with shock waves created when an object travels faster than the speed of sound. The sound that you hear when a whip is cracked is like a miniature version of the sonic boom. But the sonic boom of flights can generate massive amounts of energy, sounding like an explosion or a thunderclap.

can also cause some damages to structures, like shattering glass and more. This is why supersonic flights are often banned from flying over land.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

MOTA - Many Of The Above - new election system

Image
  How India can prevent unnatural political alliances No one can make an honest case that the parties on either side of the ideological spectrum are natural alliance partners , who are in perfect harmony with each other. While these meetings seemingly reflect ideological-political formations, at their root, the primary driving force for such unity and alliance efforts is arithmeti c. The aim is to ensure that votes of one formation do not get divided and the goal is to minimise splitting of votes on each side. In its naked form, these initiatives are merely a political response to the arithmetic of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system in India’s extremely diverse political landscape. The fountainhead of such electoral alliances among dozens of natural and unnatural parties is the fact that more than 600 parties contest the general elections and nearly three dozen parties have at least one member in Parliament, a uniquely Indian characteristic among major democracies in the
Read more

MAHATMA GANDHI INSPIRES FROM AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE - ONE LEARNS FROM HISTORY

Image
 On July 4, America celebrates their hard won victory from the oppressive tax system of the British Empire. On this day, about two and a half centuries back, the 13 states of North America, which was part of the British Empire had declared themselves independent and formed the United States of America. The American struggl e for independence was definitely very different from nationalist uprisings in other colonies of the British in the East . In America it was the British settlers who entered into a bitter scuffle with British government authorities. In his call to Indians to resist British domination, Mahatma Gandhi often referred to and drew inspiration from the American revolution. On January 4th, 1932, when Gandhi was actively propagating ‘Satyagraha’, he wrote the following message in his weekly journal, ‘Young India ’ “Even as America won its independence through suffering, valour and sacrifice, so shall India, in God’s good time achieve her freedom by suffering, sacrifice
Read more