Read More A boon for Boeing? Virgin Galactic strikes deal with NASA to work on supersonic rocket travel Virgin Galactic says it’s signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to collaborate on the ...

Building on this, the aim is to enable the development of technologies that go beyond the state of the art and further reduce the environmental impact of supersonic transport. SENECA will contribute ...

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The Supersonic Transport It is technologically feasible to build passenger aircraft capable of 2,000-mile-an-hour speeds. Several designs have been proposed the chief problem is to attain ...

Regulatory restrictions and a limited market for supersonic transport hinder the X-54's potential. Collaboration with NASA, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin on the Mach 3 business jet is at a ...

Concorde was designed in the 1960s when it seemed like supersonic passenger transport was going to be the next big thing. Instead, the Boeing 747 entered commercial service in 1970. Cheap ...

Boom Supersonic independently designed and built the XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet in America. The XB-1's first supersonic flight last month was a success, breaking the sound barrier above ...

Boeing wanted to create its own supersonic transport (SST) for America and set out to build the 2707. The plane took some cues from the Concorde jet, such as a drooping nose. However, the plane ...

Boeing, certain that the mighty 747 would be the last subsonic aircraft it produced, began working on the 2707 SST (supersonic transport). Lockheed proposed the L-2000, a supersonic aircraft that ...

“And then the other question about the supersonic transport is: Is there a market for it? Have they solved the problems that the Concorde couldn’t? That’s still up in the air ...

And he knew a retired Boeing employee to ask about the supersonic transport contract. None of these people show up directly in the book, but all proved influential. Advertising “I started my ...