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  Want Laminar Flow? Talk to Aerion

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:00 PM on May 16, 2011

  Aerion has not yet been able to secure an industry partner to develop and build its supersonic business jet (SBJ), but the company says there is growing demand for its natural lami... Read More >>

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  Drop Tests Will Measure Shaped Sonic Booms

  Posted by Graham Warwick 11:55 PM on May 02, 2011

  The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has posted a new video on its planned D-SEND series of drop tests from high-altitude balloons to demonstrate the low-boom design for a... Read More >>

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  Airliners in 2030: Supersonic Dreams

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:53 PM on May 14, 2010

  Cancelled in 1999, NASA's High Speed Research program was developing technology for a Mach 2, 300-seat, transpacific airliner. Time and technology moves on, and the environment has... Read More >>

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  McCain on Supersonics

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:22 PM on Dec 11, 2009

  Senator John McCain, former Presidential candidate and anti-pork crusader, has taken a pot-shot at NASA for awarding Lockheed Martin $4.7 million in stimulus money "to develop supe... Read More >>

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  Students on Supersonics

  Posted by Graham Warwick 9:51 PM on Dec 07, 2009

  Winners of a NASA competition for college students to design a supersonic airliner got the opportunity to present their concepts at the recent annual meeting of the agency's Fundam... Read More >>

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