The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) says they have plans to launch a supersonic plane, twice as fast as the Concorde.
NASA aims to fly New York to London in 1.5 hours
The United State’s space agency, NASA, recently announced that they have been exploring the idea of supersonic passenger air travel.
According to Daily Mail, this means that NASA wants to help commercial passengers travel from New York to London in less time than it would takes to watch the average in-flight movie, around 1.5 hours.
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The space agency said that their prelimanary studies have shown that the aircraft will fly across the Atlantic at incredible speeds between Mach 2 and Mach 4, or from roughly 1 535 to 3 045 miles per hour (2 470 to 4900 kmph).
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“NASA is just at the early, exploratory stages of research, and is not developing such aircraft” agency spokesperson Rob Margetta told the Daily Mail.
But in its recent press statement, NASA said that they hoped to see flights from New York City to London accelerate ‘up to four times faster than what’s currently possible.’.
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The space agency has already completed its X-59 quiet supersonic test aircraft, designed to muffle its own sonic booms. The very same program will apparently serve as an inspiration for the new supersonic jet project.
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