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  Quiet, Efficient Supersonics Within Sight?

  Posted by Graham Warwick 2:28 PM on Mar 29, 2012

  NASA is claiming a breakthrough in quiet supersonic aircraft, with successful windtunnel tests of designs that combine low sonic boom and low cruise drag - characteristics once tho... Read More >>

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  Supersonic Stringbag? New Look at Busemann's Biplane

  Posted by Graham Warwick 3:52 PM on Mar 22, 2012

  Biplanes are slow, right? Well researchers in Japan and the US are investigating a biplane configuration to reduce the shockwave drag and sonic boom of supersonic transports.Concep... Read More >>

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  Gojett - Making Supersonic Testing Affordable

  Posted by Graham Warwick 11:36 PM on Feb 29, 2012

  Starkey Aerospace - Starcor - is a start-up company formed by University of Colorado Boulder assistant professor Ryan Starkey to develop a small, low-cost, supersonic unmanned airc... Read More >>

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  New Supersonic BizJet - Check ShowNews

  Posted by Graham Warwick 7:40 PM on Jun 17, 2011

  Check Monday's Aviation Week ShowNews at Paris for exclusive details of a new supersonic business jet - and not just any supersonic bizjet, but a quiet hybrid-electric supersonic b... Read More >>

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  How to Prove Quiet Supersonics Can Work

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:44 PM on May 27, 2011

  Concept: Lockheed MartinBoeing and Lockheed Martin are working on designs for low-boom supersonic airliners under NASA contracts that include windtunnel tests to validate they can ... Read More >>

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  Quiet Supersonics: JAXA Goes Boom in Sweden

  Posted by Graham Warwick 12:41 PM on May 19, 2011

  The Japan Aerosopace Exploration Agency has completed its first series of drop tests in Sweden to validate design techniques for a low-boom supersonic transport, and the results ar... Read More >>

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  ABBA Performs in Sweden (Supersonically)

  Posted by Graham Warwick 6:28 PM on Jun 11, 2010

  Before you can design a supersonic aircraft with lower sonic boom, you have to be able to measure the boom - outdoors and indoors. To get the precise information it needs when... Read More >>

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