« on: October 25, 2017, 09:37:54 am »
By Jay Bennett
NASA is working to build and fly its first piloted supersonic X-plane since the X-31, a Mach 1.28 jet designed to test thrust vectoring technologies that achieved first flight in 1990. The aeronautics agency's next faster-than-sound experimental plane—the Low-Boom Flight Demonstration (LBFD) aircraft that contractors submitted bids to build last month—will be more concerned with the physics of breaking the sound barrier than the nuances of engine performance.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/news/a28741/nasa-prepares-select-contractor-build-low-boom-supersonic-x-plane/
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