Sentences with phrase «boom supersonic»

FTE explores how the likes of Airbus A ³'s Vahana, Hyperloop and Boom Supersonic could redefine travel and transportation in the relatively near future.

New companies like Boom Supersonic are trying to make use of the technology for transoceanic routes, with backing from investors like Richard Branson and Japan Airlines.

Boom Supersonic is working to bring supersonic travel to transoceanic travelers in just a few years.

The sum is going to Boom Supersonic, Japan Airlines said Tuesday, in hopes that the Denver - based upstart will successfully develop a plane that could cut flight times in half with cruising speeds of Mach 2.2 — more than 1,450 miles an hour.

Boom Supersonic is developing a 55 - seat plane which it claims will be able to more than halve the flight time from San Francisco to Washington DC to just two - and - a-half hours.

The Boom Supersonic's XB - 1, or the «baby boom,» has received $ 33 million (# 26 million) in Series A funding, taking its total raised to $ 41 million (# 33 million), the company said in a blog.

Sonic booms have caused alarm and damage when they have been produced in isolated cases by supersonic military jets flying over thinly populated areas; to allow a new fleet of booming supersonic transports to pass over cities at low altitudes during operations near metropolitan airports is clearly impossible.»

Not exact matches

Japan Airlines is investing $ 10 million in supersonic start - up Boom and options planes that would cut flight time in half.

One stumbling block to trans - American routes is federal sonic boom regulation which has prevented supersonic travel over U.S. skies since 1973.

After the demise of the Concorde supersonic jet in 2003, flight times have stayed relatively constant — but Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom Technology, says air travel could get a speed boost in just a few years.

Lockheed Martin has won a nearly quarter - billion dollar NASA contract to develop a plane capable of supersonic speed without creating the deafening sonic boom that comes with breaking the sound barrier.

NASA awards $ 247.5 million cost - plus contract to Lockheed Martin to design and build a supersonic aircraft that does not create a traditional sonic boom.

The same goes for Concorde: the famously graceful supersonic airliner produced booms powerful enough to crack windows.

But if sonic booms can be reduced to 65 or 70 PLdB and companies like Boeing see a market for ultrafast flight, Peter Coen, project manager for NASA's Fundamental Aeronautics Supersonic Project, expects to see supersonic business jets flyinSupersonic Project, expects to see supersonic business jets flyinsupersonic business jets flying by 2020.

A six - month - long series of sonic - boom tests in Oklahoma City in 1964 prompted thousands of complaints and damage claims, a class - action lawsuit, and the beginning of the end for supersonic airliners.

Sonic Boom «Last year Congress appropriated $ 11 million for the Federal Aviation Agency to begin the development of a prototype supersonic transport, with technical support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Among the large questions of design, construction and operation that remain to be solved before airliners travel faster than sound, one of the most difficult is the problem of sonic boom: the explosive sounds generated when an object moves through the air at supersonic speed.

By the time she retired, in 2007, she had authored more than 50 papers on supersonic boom and aircraft design, and reached the senior executive level at NASA — the first African American to do so.

In the supersonic category, Boeing and Lockheed Martin developed concept planes that are both fuel - stingy and quiet — a feat Boeing accomplished with a shape designed to control the sonic boom.

This trace would be analogous to a sonic boom left behind by a supersonic fighter jet.

But the boom created when the aircraft breaks the sound barrier is so loud that it can shatter windows and dislodge roof tiles, so supersonic flights are banned or restricted in many areas.

Now, Knipp and her team have determined that when such powerful CMEs come off the sun and speed toward Earth, they create shock waves much like supersonic aircraft create sonic booms.

Banks of rock concert loudspeakers stacked a couple of metres from a house near Atlanta, Georgia, are part of an experiment designed to measure the unsettling effects of sonic booms from supersonic aircraft.

«To fly these aircraft over land without restrictions, we have to reduce the sonic boom to acceptable levels,» says Peter Coen, supersonics principal investigator at Langley Research Center.

A new study of these anomalous arms made with Spitzer shows that shock waves, similar to sonic booms from supersonic planes, are heating large amounts of gas — equivalent to about 10 million suns.

The Denver - based company is developing a new - generation supersonic aircraft, which flies at Mach 2.2, and JAL will now collaborate with Boom to refine the aircraft design and help define the supersonic passenger experience.

We've reported before about a Colorado - based aircraft manufacturer called Boom, which is developing a next - generation supersonic passenger plane.

Furthermore, supersonic aircraft cost more to build and maintain and produce annoying sonic booms over populated areas.

A big problem with supersonic flight was that the sonic boom made it too loud to fly over populated areas.

NASA and Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works are teaming up to create the Low - Boom Flight Demonstrator, an experimental aircraft that aims to usher in the era of commercial supersonic flight.