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NASA and Lockheed Martin formally debuted the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft Friday. Using this one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims to

NASA and Lockheed Martin formally debuted the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft Friday. Using this one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims to

    • vind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44·
      11 months ago

      The Sonic Boom will sound more like your neighbours car door closing than an explosion

      • KevonLooney@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Even regular planes have negative effects on the neighborhoods they take off and land over. This is definitely going to be worse.

        I’ll only believe the “low noise” PR if it flies supersonic directly over Malibu or the Hamptons and Nantucket.

      • Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        512·
        11 months ago

        A sonic thump could still be very disturbing. Maybe not break windows, but induce panic I a lot of people.

        • Mr_Blott@lemmy.worldEnglish
          66·
          11 months ago

          Jesus fucking Christ, we need a word for cunts in the comments who’ll find any fuckin reason to suggest a really specific reason to be against/offended about something on behalf of someone else 😂

          Is there a word for that?

          Can we make one?

          • Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            32·
            11 months ago

            May I suggest a blott?

            And what is so bad about not wanting sonic booms of any sort happening over my head?

            • Mr_Blott@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              11 months ago

              I was making a point about the 0.00000001% of people that could be distressed by that but you didn’t understand my comment

              • Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                21·
                11 months ago

                Sorry, I missed the part were it was such a small number. I also doubt that number is true.

        • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
          511·
          11 months ago

          Yeah, apparently we do…

          The problem with Sonic booms isn’t that you notice them, it’s fine to notice the sound of a vehicle traveling overhead. The problem is that the sound from previous supersonic jets has shattered windows all along the flight path, ruptured eardrums and caused moderate hearing loss.That is a problem…

          If this instead sounds like a car door closing, I’d call that significantly quieter.

          • poppy@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            I was at work in a bank (big, sturdy, multiple stories) when we experienced a sonic boom. It was heard/felt across several counties. We thought a bomb had gone off somewhere.