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QSP : Quiet Supersonic Platform

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Nans DESMICHELS

posted on May, 12 2004 @ 02:09 PM
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A silent supersonic plane, develloped by Northrop-Grunman :

QSP at DARP : www.darpa.mil...

QSP at N-G : www.capitol.northgrum.com...


Amet Khan

posted on May, 12 2004 @ 08:47 PM
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Nice stuff.
Quieter supersonic aircraft will be a requirement if supersonic flight is ever to become commonplace over populated areas. As things stand now, there are many restrictions to supersonic flight (thanks Aerospaceweb for the article).

1)DFRC photo gallery of modified F-5E

2)NASA Shaped Sonic Boom Demostration Project

3)NASA Langley tech brief - sonic boom tests of supersonic business plane

4) Sonic Boom Reduction using an Adjoint Method for Supersonic Transport Aircraft Configurations (PDF)

5) Adjoint-Baed Sonic Boom Reduction For Wing-Body Configurations in Supersonic Flow (PDF)

6) Spaceflight Now article

7) Slashdot discussion about Spaceflight Now article



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