NASA Finally Unveiled 'Quiet' X-59 Supersonic Aircraft

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  • Опубліковано 21 лис 2024

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  • @bthome123
    @bthome123 4 місяці тому +462

    I tap out anytime a narrator tells me to “wait till the end to find out”.

    • @BlazingShackles
      @BlazingShackles 4 місяці тому +12

      I skip straight to the last 2 minutes. Oh well, not all of us were born smart.

    • @Mika-xt1wc
      @Mika-xt1wc 4 місяці тому +3

      @@BlazingShackles Youre the dumdum here. You did just what they wanted😆

    • @ObsidianB8
      @ObsidianB8 4 місяці тому +3

      NAHHHHSAHHHHH

    • @drengr2759
      @drengr2759 4 місяці тому +8

      @@Mika-xt1wc They don't make money if you skip their stupid video. you can skip to the last minute, get the info you wanted, and leave a downvote. They desperately need you to watch their 10 minutes of fluff so they can get a couple ads in. They don't get a dime if you skip past their worthless rambling, so you're the "dumdum" for not understanding the point @BlazingShackles was making.

    • @Mika-xt1wc
      @Mika-xt1wc 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@drengr2759 Could be that you are the ultimate dumdum for not using adblocker😂

  • @Genebaket
    @Genebaket 4 місяці тому +1129

    We do not need Mach 1 plus for passenger airplanes. What we need is bigger seats and more legroom stop trying to pack us in like a cattle car.

    • @Thumper68
      @Thumper68 4 місяці тому

      Or less fat people

    • @Smokeyr67
      @Smokeyr67 4 місяці тому +243

      Speak for yourself. As an Australian I'd love to see a long range mach 1 + aircraft introduced, rather than spending 24 hours on a plane just to get to the UK.

    • @JSchrumm
      @JSchrumm 4 місяці тому +47

      Cheaper fuel and non-greedy airline CEO'S would contribute to that goal.

    • @fredflinstone8628
      @fredflinstone8628 4 місяці тому +99

      Why can't we have both?

    • @Ballissle
      @Ballissle 4 місяці тому +51

      If you have a much shorter flight time then those things will matter less.
      Plus having more seats makes it cheaper to fly.

  • @UrbaneHobbit
    @UrbaneHobbit 4 місяці тому +137

    The AI wants you to hear its perfect voice. The AI doesn’t understand that you want to hear what a sonic boom sounds like

  • @anml1969
    @anml1969 4 місяці тому +419

    Don’t let Boeing anywhere near it.

  • @richardhookway
    @richardhookway 4 місяці тому +118

    I used to love hearing the sonic boom when I was a child. We lived on the flight path in Devon, UK. I used to occasionally think about the passengers on board heading to New York, a place that I had only seen in films.

    • @dentalnovember
      @dentalnovember 4 місяці тому +6

      I am surprised some kid hasn’t called you a “boomer”.

    • @richardhookway
      @richardhookway 4 місяці тому +1

      @@dentalnovember Just as well - a Generation Xer here 🙂

    • @r.guerreiro140
      @r.guerreiro140 4 місяці тому +1

      I would love to have such an experience

    • @nelsonbergman7706
      @nelsonbergman7706 4 місяці тому +9

      When I was a child I lived near McDonald-Douglas and they would test their jets. The sonic booms didn't bother me. I called them the Sound of Freedom.

    • @howardgrover8908
      @howardgrover8908 4 місяці тому +3

      Boomer here and I enjoyed hearing the sonic boom when I was growing up.

  • @billmullins6833
    @billmullins6833 4 місяці тому +75

    I started school in Abilene, Texas where Dyess Air Force Base was located. Sonic booms were just a way of life. I don't remember anybody getting upset over them.

    • @williamhudson4938
      @williamhudson4938 4 місяці тому +2

      What year was this? Abilene is in the middle of oil fields and agriculture where no-one was upset about a little "background" noise. I was raised in the Panhandle of Texas in the early '60s and heard sonic booms often from B-58s out of Carswell AFB on their missions in the test areas in west Texas.

    • @sahibdipsandhu
      @sahibdipsandhu 4 місяці тому +1

      @@williamhudson4938 uh last i checked the b58 isn't exactly capable of going supersonic lol

    • @machupikachu1085
      @machupikachu1085 4 місяці тому +5

      @@sahibdipsandhu "uh last i checked the b58 isn't exactly capable of going supersonic lol"
      are you thinking of the B52? The B58 Hustler was America's first supersonic bomber that was designed to fly at mach 2. So...maybe check again.

    • @Rockoblocko
      @Rockoblocko 4 місяці тому +1

      @@machupikachu1085yup. The hustler was supersonic, awesome aircraft.

    • @waynewallace6630
      @waynewallace6630 4 місяці тому

      It’s a flying dishwasher!

  • @willamcombs1106
    @willamcombs1106 4 місяці тому +80

    Who remembers the show, Get Smart? I remember they had something called the Hush-A-Boom. That's what they should call this plane as a nod to Get Smart. 😂😂

    • @antigravityworkshop1436
      @antigravityworkshop1436 4 місяці тому

      Maybe it will drop nude bombs.

    • @timmainson
      @timmainson 4 місяці тому +8

      That was Rocky & Bullwinkle ;) The explosive in Get Smart had no name. (I'm embarrassed for knowing. that LOL)

    • @chrisward4576
      @chrisward4576 4 місяці тому +5

      @@timmainson Pretty sure that was Boris and Natasha.....it just dawned on me how old I am😦😎

    • @willamcombs1106
      @willamcombs1106 4 місяці тому +2

      @@chrisward4576 I was thinking it was in the get smart movie the nude bomb but now I believe you're correct. Thanks.

    • @willamcombs1106
      @willamcombs1106 4 місяці тому +2

      @@timmainson you're right.

  • @breeze5440
    @breeze5440 3 місяці тому +25

    I hate when AI drag things out. I'm seeing too many channels do this now

    • @ryanstage7015
      @ryanstage7015 3 дні тому

      Upvoting to hopefully make this the first comment

  • @seandees9432
    @seandees9432 4 місяці тому +5

    When i worked at lockheed martin in palmdale i had access to a 2nd floor mezzane overlooking the area were they were assembling the X-59 it was interesting to observe the progress over time as it was assembled

    • @imrytebeehyneu
      @imrytebeehyneu 3 місяці тому +1

      But doesn't it look like a jet fighter than a airline with the engine at the top instead of the bottom?

  • @user-bm2xf6io3c
    @user-bm2xf6io3c 4 місяці тому +16

    Fun fact: Every 3 decibels, the intensity of the sound *doubles*. From 75 to 105 decibels, the sound pressure has doubled 10 times! That makes the Concorde's sonic boom 1024 tiems louder than the new proposed line of jets.

    • @keithbalding7258
      @keithbalding7258 4 місяці тому +2

      Yes, but. The human ear is only capable of detecting a 3db change in level. Every time you increase the volume on your audio system so you can just hear a difference in volume you are increasing the level by 3db.

    • @user-bm2xf6io3c
      @user-bm2xf6io3c 4 місяці тому +2

      @@keithbalding7258 Thanks! I did not know that.

    • @tonamg53
      @tonamg53 4 місяці тому

      @@keithbalding7258but decibel is not an absolute scale but a relative.
      Yes, +3 db is barely audible but +10db is basically double the volume to our ears.
      Also depends on which frequency you are hearing too. For example, 200 Hz and 1000 Hz both playing at 60 db, one will drive you nuts while the other one is quite tolerable.

  • @justanotherfella4585
    @justanotherfella4585 4 місяці тому +20

    This fellas pronunciation of NASA is more than I can take.

    • @7000fps
      @7000fps 4 місяці тому +1

      it iz AI voice

    • @sandgrownun66
      @sandgrownun66 4 місяці тому +2

      It's a robot. It doesn't know any better.

    • @oobs35
      @oobs35 4 місяці тому

      YES!!! he spells it NARSA too

    • @sandgrownun66
      @sandgrownun66 4 місяці тому

      @@oobs35 The robot doesn't spell anything. It pronounces NASA with a long "a".

    • @jublywubly
      @jublywubly 4 місяці тому

      He/it pronounced loads of words incorrectly, but NASA was by far the most incorrect and annoying one.

  • @hugoa1978
    @hugoa1978 4 місяці тому +12

    the thought of not having a visual reference of any kind in front of you at those heights and those speeds is truly terrifying and would no less require nerves of steel to get into a extremely fast box without windows.

    • @ogearbox6132
      @ogearbox6132 4 місяці тому

      Absolutely this is why DEI will be the defining criteria for HR hiring managers. My last flight took place in April 2024, it will be the last time I will ever fly. Unless of course Trump is elected and he manages to undo 12 yrs of Obama/Biden destruction of the US. LOL I don’t chase after rainbows and unicorns either.

    • @thrillchaser9492
      @thrillchaser9492 4 місяці тому +2

      WHEN A Pilot flies into a cloud he has NO VISUAL reference.. It's like someone painted the windows white.. I have flown when I couldn't see a meter down the nose The wings are gone from sight...hehe.. This happens every day I promise you it doesn't matter how fast you are going losing sight gets your attention every time... but we do it safely most times.. it's called instrument flying. They have a camera that helps this plane to see forward. my question is what happens when you get a bug that goes splat on the camera and covers the view...lol..

    • @nickbeckwith6211
      @nickbeckwith6211 4 місяці тому +5

      What happens if the cameras short out? Particularly on final approach.

    • @thrillchaser9492
      @thrillchaser9492 4 місяці тому +2

      @@nickbeckwith6211 A lot of prayer...lol

    • @hugoa1978
      @hugoa1978 4 місяці тому

      @@thrillchaser9492 exactly my point, pilots are trained and encouraged to rely and trust their instrument clusters over their visual and other physical senses because it can't be fooled as easily as a humans senses can however in case of catastrophic failure being the bug splat on the camera rendering instruments useless you have a second life line being your windows. lol
      God help ya going at those speeds only to experience a glitch, lag or a screen freeze rendering the image useless. lol

  • @matthiaskreuz9812
    @matthiaskreuz9812 4 місяці тому +107

    Faster medical response, i'm dying from laughter 😂

    • @giuseppe.turitto
      @giuseppe.turitto 4 місяці тому +4

      Yes is a silly argument, but imagine if we had a way to fly a pacient that had been in a bad accident to a medical center that can take care of it in matter of minutes, not hours. This research if succesful can lead to improve aviation and the creation of medical fast response services. But I think is only a dream.

    • @MikeInExile
      @MikeInExile 4 місяці тому +9

      You're not considering being able to transport organs around much more quickly for the Gift of Life and other organ donor programs.

    • @matthiaskreuz9812
      @matthiaskreuz9812 4 місяці тому +7

      Guys, I apriciate your thinking, but flying supersonic is super expensive. There are already jetplanes in service doing just this. And they are almost as fast as sound.

    • @DonEmbrey
      @DonEmbrey 4 місяці тому

      Laugh all you want, you’re way behind.

    • @mrbamfo5000
      @mrbamfo5000 4 місяці тому +3

      They're not flying a jet like that any significant distance for any patient with the possible exception of a national leader.

  • @moonbear1st
    @moonbear1st 4 місяці тому +68

    concorde wasnt discontinued because of the sound of breaking the sound barrier. during its uk tour it passed over my house in england about 10 miles from mcr airport. it was not deafening nor did it rattle windows.

    • @user-pj8hp9jd7t
      @user-pj8hp9jd7t 4 місяці тому +8

      I lived near Holloman AFB for 5yrs and those f35s would knock the pictures off my walls every day. Granted, they were breaking the sound barrier a couple hundred feet AGL.

    • @moonbear1st
      @moonbear1st 4 місяці тому +11

      @@user-pj8hp9jd7t when you consider you can fit the uk into washington state twice with room for ireland, they didnt really have time to hit full throttle lol..

    • @giuseppe.turitto
      @giuseppe.turitto 4 місяці тому +17

      True the Concorde wasnt discontinued because of the sonic boom, but the reason why you never got affected by it was because the Concorde was only allowed to fly at supersonic speed on top of the ocean, this means by the the time they where close to your home the plane was already at subsonic speed.
      The biggest issue with the fact that they where only allowed to fly at supersonic speed on top of the ocean, was that limited the number of routes, pretty much no LA to Berlin, all because those engines the best fuel consumption happens at supersonic speed (if I remeber well it was 1.7 Mach), at lower speeds they where just burning the fuel.
      A fly LA to Paris with the Concorde (a route they once had), flying over the US at subsonic speed meant having to land by Chicago or NYC to reload fuel and keep the flight, making it non practical, that is why that route was canceled as well many other routes.

    • @dj_paultuk7052
      @dj_paultuk7052 4 місяці тому +10

      Exactly. Im on the M4 Corridor 20 miles from Heathrow. Used to love seeing Concorde come over every day at 1pm as a kid. It was not that loud. But the crackle from the engines was really cool.

    • @1chish
      @1chish 4 місяці тому +9

      @@giuseppe.turitto Some serious misrepresentations there fellah. For a start Concorde flew at Mach 2. And it did so using 'Supercruise' (ie supersonic flight without afterburners) for 3,000 miles. No other aircraft got anywhere close to that capability. Hilarious how the Yanks thought they invented 'Supercruise' with the F-22 when the EE Lightning was doing it in the '50s followed by Concorde in the '60s.
      As for the stops 'for fuel' in the USA? Well not quite true. It was to pick up more passengers.

  • @Dhannibal01
    @Dhannibal01 4 місяці тому +23

    If NASA/Boeing accomplishment with Starliner are anything to go by, can only hope that NASA's involvement with Lockheed Martin has better results.

    • @dinahwhite3929
      @dinahwhite3929 4 місяці тому

      NASA LOCKHEED MARTIN 10101010110✅✅✅✅
      BOEING 0000000 grade f for FAILURE❌❌

  • @davewitter6565
    @davewitter6565 4 місяці тому +192

    Looks like affordable transportation for the .01%

    • @paladro
      @paladro 4 місяці тому +8

      you could say that for almost any military prototype...

    • @cliveklg7739
      @cliveklg7739 4 місяці тому +1

      This plane isn't meant for passenger transport. It is a proof of concept design, as a basis for building passenger planes. And it was't just the 1% flying on the concorde.

    • @MegaLokopo
      @MegaLokopo 4 місяці тому +2

      Just like shoes were a few hundred years ago. And then horses and carriages, and cars, and then planes not too much later. Just like income tax was originally, this is for the 0.01 percent today, but in ten years flying will be cheaper and faster than ever before.

    • @ljprep6250
      @ljprep6250 4 місяці тому +1

      @@cliveklg7739 Yeah, they got prices down to where the top 10% could afford tickets.

    • @cliveklg7739
      @cliveklg7739 4 місяці тому

      @@ljprep6250 more hyperbolic bs with no facts. You don't help your argument with lies like the OP.

  • @kenandbarbie-b6c
    @kenandbarbie-b6c 4 місяці тому +96

    Sounds like a good thing, but frankly we are having trouble with the quality & safety of subsonic flights now.
    Hopefully Lockheed-Martin is a better operation than Boeing now.

    • @Gunnl
      @Gunnl 4 місяці тому +3

      "We" ?! ... its only Boeing...

    • @xpxp2839
      @xpxp2839 4 місяці тому

      Less delay in the airport is good enough😂

    • @DonEmbrey
      @DonEmbrey 4 місяці тому +1

      You don’t understand much.

    • @jakemensik2842
      @jakemensik2842 4 місяці тому +1

      Uninformed comment.

    • @kenandbarbie-b6c
      @kenandbarbie-b6c 4 місяці тому

      I just hope Boeing fixes their problems & do more than virtue signal with lip service.

  • @mohillbilly5841
    @mohillbilly5841 Місяць тому

    I worked on this. Pretty cool project. It is a test bed for both commercial and defense projects.

  • @donadams8345
    @donadams8345 4 місяці тому +5

    There was a day when sonic booms were common. We were used to it and when the jets were high altitude it really wasn't a problem. There are always people that won't like anything you do. You find this with people that build houses next to airports then complain about the noise the airplanes make taking off and landing at the airport, go figure that one!

    • @lqr824
      @lqr824 4 місяці тому

      Sonic booms weren't ever common. Who told you that?

    • @donadams8345
      @donadams8345 4 місяці тому

      @@lqr824 I see you're an "expert" on the topic. Well, you're not. I'm 73 years old and I lived in those days. Where I lived they were common. Go badger someone else.

    • @lqr824
      @lqr824 4 місяці тому

      @@donadams8345 In no country on the planet, in any year in history, did even 10% of the citizens even hear even one sonic boom. Sonic booms have never been common.
      Maybe the very few percent that lived near a military training base might hear them at times but not even military jets flew supersonic with any regularity. But go back and read your comment. You didn't SAY they were common around military training, you said common full stop, no qualifications whatsoever, and now you're whining because you've been called out as a liar. Have been such a whiner all your 73 years?

    • @donadams8345
      @donadams8345 4 місяці тому

      @@lqr824 You're a flat out liar. Cite your stats.

    • @lqr824
      @lqr824 4 місяці тому

      @user-vf4pu8qp9d call 911 man, you're having a stroke

  • @markandrade7547
    @markandrade7547 4 місяці тому

    As a New Yorker I used to love when the Concord flew into JFK. I lifeguarded Rockaway Beach the summers of 87,88 and 89 and watched the Concord fly in the morning.

  • @manuelalejandrorodriguezba4791
    @manuelalejandrorodriguezba4791 4 місяці тому +6

    Great machine. but what would happen if the front camera fails or the screen that the pilots uses to see to the front.

    • @smacksman
      @smacksman 4 місяці тому +1

      As the old joke goes with the pilot of the new airliner welcomes his passengers aboard ' This plane is fully automated and nothing can go wrong ... go wrong .. go wrong ... '

  • @fredtedstedman
    @fredtedstedman 4 місяці тому +22

    unveiled in January ??? thats 6 months ago .

    • @totalutternutter
      @totalutternutter 4 місяці тому

      They've probably had it secretly for 40 years already but are unveiling it publicly now because secretly they have something newer that makes it obsolete.

  • @Worldofourown2024
    @Worldofourown2024 4 місяці тому +5

    It's basically an X world flight simulator with a small computer screen. Sure we can all handle 75 more decibels of noise while wearing noise canceling headphones.

  • @nicholasklangos9704
    @nicholasklangos9704 4 місяці тому +1

    Gorgeous aircraft!! Hurry up and fly!!

  • @DrewWithington
    @DrewWithington 4 місяці тому +7

    But if you look at the shape of the X-59 it's obvious that to get the reduction in the sonic boom level it has had to have a really extreme pointy shape - 100ft long with a 30ft wingspan. Concorde was already very pointy, with a 200ft long fuselage and an 85 ft wingspan for 100 seats capacity. To scale up the X-59 proportionately for a 100 seat passenger jet it would be like 300ft long with a 90ft wingspan. That's a huge plane for 100 seats. Although very pointy planes fly very well at high speed they don't generate much lift at low speeds, so need really long runways to take-off and land. This would be even more true with a plane that's 300ft long.

    • @nicholasklangos9704
      @nicholasklangos9704 4 місяці тому

      Not true, or close to reality in aircraft engineering!!

    • @DrewWithington
      @DrewWithington 4 місяці тому +1

      @@nicholasklangos9704 ?

    • @Piecenotwar
      @Piecenotwar 4 місяці тому +1

      @@nicholasklangos9704It is true if the surface area of the aircraft increases, the leading edge has to increase proportional to the area of the fuselage and wing area, probably incredibly difficult to scale up.

  • @Vention3
    @Vention3 4 місяці тому

    I can only imagine the day watching this & how it will be so antiquated.. whoa!! Onward!

  • @BigMacOrange
    @BigMacOrange 4 місяці тому +4

    Sir, how pointy should we make it?
    YES!

  • @virality365
    @virality365 4 місяці тому

    I always liked the sonic booms as a kid, but haven't heard one in years!!

  • @DZ-zc3gi
    @DZ-zc3gi 4 місяці тому +5

    I bet the only purpose was massive kickbacks as any other expensive projects. Business as usual. But they needed to show something before it goes to an archive.

  • @galahad6001
    @galahad6001 4 місяці тому

    I remember i would hear ever evening at 9 pm over devon ... It was not a big deal...i used it as a time to go home as a kid ..😊

  • @plane_guy6051
    @plane_guy6051 4 місяці тому +23

    So the solution to the sonic boom problem is to build a plane that's really, really pointy. Jeez, who the hell would have ever guessed that?

    • @MegaLokopo
      @MegaLokopo 4 місяці тому

      The shape of the plane isn't the hard part. It is much harder to find a material strong and light enough. And to design engines and a cockpit that don't get in the way of each other or the design of the plane.

  • @a_bar8579
    @a_bar8579 4 місяці тому

    Industrial companies still amaze us and continue to be at the top 🔥

  • @larrybremer4930
    @larrybremer4930 4 місяці тому +3

    Looks like it borrowed a lot of parts from the F-16. Also a sonic boom is not just noise pollution problem but also one of efficiency. It takes energy to make sound, and a sound that loud takes a lot of energy to produce. It is very much like the wake of a boat where a large wake is both taking a lot of energy and reducing the boat/ships efficiency that created it. Minimize the wake minimizes the boom and maximizes efficiency.

    • @gargar8196
      @gargar8196 4 місяці тому +1

      This country has a lot of crude oil that hasn’t been developed yet and until technology brings us a better faster way of traveling than why not use our resources “Rising water lifts all boats”

    • @Rockoblocko
      @Rockoblocko 4 місяці тому

      It started life as an F-18, but it is a whole new aircraft now.

    • @larrybremer4930
      @larrybremer4930 4 місяці тому

      @@Rockoblocko That landing gear is clearly F-16, not F-18.

    • @Rockoblocko
      @Rockoblocko 4 місяці тому

      @@larrybremer4930 it has components from several different aircraft, the F-16 being one of them. But what do I know, I’m only a NASA AFRC engineer working on the project.

    • @larrybremer4930
      @larrybremer4930 4 місяці тому +1

      @@Rockoblocko Just saying F-16 was the only recognizable parts sir. And thanks for your service. My stepdad was an engineer on the shuttle program right up until the instant the last flight lifted off.

  • @machupikachu1085
    @machupikachu1085 4 місяці тому +2

    I recall the other concern other than sound was the detrimental effect on the ozone layer from constant jet flights over 50 000 feet. Did that problem magically go away?

    • @lqr824
      @lqr824 4 місяці тому

      It may have done in part, due to lower emissions, less unburnt and partially-burnt fuel and so on.

  • @dirtycatmechanic
    @dirtycatmechanic 4 місяці тому +7

    Pam doesn’t even know what fuel it uses.

  • @grugbug4313
    @grugbug4313 4 місяці тому +2

    Solid!
    Top KEK!
    Peace be with you.

  • @lightbox617
    @lightbox617 4 місяці тому +5

    My dishwasher must be much quieter than yours.In the late 1980's I saw an add in the NYT offering a New Years Eve flight from NYC to London and back for $1,500. I had the money (just barely) but not the attitude to spend the money. I'm still conflicted over the choice.

    • @Piecenotwar
      @Piecenotwar 4 місяці тому

      As you get older you realise that you need to take some opportunities as they arise because there’s no guarantee you will get a second chance to take them.
      Imagine being able to say you flew on Concord, as the years pass the amount of people able to say that diminishes, there will never be another first supersonic passenger jet.

  • @Yetipfote
    @Yetipfote 4 місяці тому

    I love this thing! It's courageous, ingenious and ambitious ❤

  • @Haywire-Alguire
    @Haywire-Alguire 4 місяці тому +6

    No windows to see where the hell your going. What happens if the visual screen malfunctions ??

    • @paulbriggs3072
      @paulbriggs3072 4 місяці тому +2

      Won't happen. The screens will be made by Dell and run by Microsoft. What could fail?

    • @MegaLokopo
      @MegaLokopo 4 місяці тому +1

      What do pilots already do when their instruments fail? They rely on the other redundant systems to keep the airplane in the air.

  • @rodneydavenport4646
    @rodneydavenport4646 4 місяці тому

    My wife lived on Jet Rd, in Sandy Springs, right in the flight line of Dobbins Air Force Base. There were a lot of sonic booms, living so close to the base.

  • @peterf2451
    @peterf2451 4 місяці тому +3

    I remember the Cold War days when the military used supersonic jets with impunity on training flights in Europe. Some of them were stratospheric, not low level, and their boom was quite subdued even with technology of the day. The only problem was that the boom came without warning and it was this element of surprise that made it a nuisance. So, a lot of psychology is involved here. Just like with the Concorde. Its most annoying feature was that it was made in Europe.

    • @captlazer5509
      @captlazer5509 4 місяці тому

      The Concorde ate jet fuel like a land yacht car from the 70's. There's a reason it didn't fly from Vancouver, LA or SFO airports to Asia. Cutting that flight time would have been amazing. Concorde was inspired technology, but it had its drawbacks. Cost per hour of flight time in its 4100 mile flight range was its Achilles' heel

    • @peterf2451
      @peterf2451 4 місяці тому

      @@captlazer5509 First class plus 20% as I recall. It was marginal technology - if London weather was poor you had to decide half an hour ahead to divert into Paris or vice versa. There was not enough fuel to go around and then divert, but this margin was somehow made legal - they had more cojones those days. It did not really matter because the idea was that Concorde was iteration no.1, to be followed by better versions. Like the moon landings would continue after the first batch. What could possibly go wrong, right?

    • @captlazer5509
      @captlazer5509 4 місяці тому +1

      @peterf2451 there was love in North America for the Concorde. I was a kid and remember classmates drawing the Concorde and that campy movie Airport 77: The Concorde. Wish the fuel consumption issue could have been solved. Maybe one day a new Concorde will grace us again.

  • @RobertEMuir
    @RobertEMuir 4 місяці тому +2

    Let's face the reality...this was never intended for passenger flight. This is military. Plane and simple.

  • @jr8163
    @jr8163 4 місяці тому +15

    Nothing like a passenger plane.

    • @nicholasklangos9704
      @nicholasklangos9704 4 місяці тому +1

      It’s not! It’s a technology demonstration jet! Goofball!

    • @robertappleby6683
      @robertappleby6683 4 місяці тому

      I think you might be the goof it isn't realistic making that shape big enough for passengers and certainly not financially viable just like Concorde even though fuel was cheaper and emissions weren't much of a concern.

  • @pnwprospecting
    @pnwprospecting 4 місяці тому

    I always loved being surprised as a kid by sonic booms over my town! It would always make us laugh

  • @robh3895
    @robh3895 4 місяці тому +5

    Where is the R you say in NASA?

    • @macjim
      @macjim 4 місяці тому +4

      I’m pretty sure that is an artificial voiceover, a computer generated voice.

    • @7000fps
      @7000fps 4 місяці тому

      A I voice

  • @canturgan
    @canturgan 4 місяці тому +2

    We had it right over 50 years ago. Concorde was an engineering miracle.

  • @JesusFollower43
    @JesusFollower43 4 місяці тому +4

    Jesus loves you all

    • @PeterH-be1xe
      @PeterH-be1xe 4 місяці тому

      لا إله إلا الله، ومحمد رسول الله.

  • @GlitterGuru
    @GlitterGuru Місяць тому

    That virtual cockpit better function flawlessly 100% of the time

  • @syfieldsjr1576
    @syfieldsjr1576 4 місяці тому +8

    The original design was by Lockheed Martin and she gives no credit to those ingenious, hard-working people! Way to go Pam! Lol

  • @gcharouhas
    @gcharouhas 4 місяці тому +1

    Oh yeah. JUST what the world needs.

  • @MrRotaryrockets
    @MrRotaryrockets 4 місяці тому +6

    I just checked and the Canadian Avro Aero could clock out at maximum 2104 km/h or Mach 1.7 that's in 1957-1959 Boys.. P.S. all it would take to kill the x59 is to have a electrical failure and without visuals it would be very hard, if not impossible , to fly that craft.. anywhere .

    • @Thumper68
      @Thumper68 4 місяці тому

      It wasn’t trying to be the fastest. It’s useless though

    • @bradley3549
      @bradley3549 4 місяці тому +3

      Most modern aircraft would crash with a complete electrical failure. They rely entirely on electrical systems to fly at all, regardless of whether you can see or not.

    • @MrRotaryrockets
      @MrRotaryrockets 4 місяці тому

      and no chute oh lovely..

    • @fredflinstone8628
      @fredflinstone8628 4 місяці тому +1

      Electrical failure...like every plane you have ever flown in. The turbines normally provide electrical power to the aircraft, but they all have a separate back up generator that provides emergency power to essential flight ststems should you lose the engines....with the first step being the ability to attempt a restart of the engine(s). So your comment is irrelevant.

    • @Three_Random_Words
      @Three_Random_Words 4 місяці тому

      finally there's the RAT - ram air turbine.

  • @southofhollywood4199
    @southofhollywood4199 4 місяці тому

    I remember when the Space Shuttle landed in Southern California. The sonic booms felt like a bump but it wasn't bad.

  • @chuckfarley567
    @chuckfarley567 4 місяці тому +11

    Hummm....Billion dollar lawn dart.......

  • @acuriouseye
    @acuriouseye 4 місяці тому +1

    "Faster freight." LOL 😂

  • @jimsimpson1006
    @jimsimpson1006 4 місяці тому +16

    I've always maintained that Concorde was defeated by jealousy.

    • @jbird6609
      @jbird6609 4 місяці тому +3

      High maintenance and 2 accidents condemned the aircraft. Ridership fell and it became an economic failure.

    • @nixl3518
      @nixl3518 4 місяці тому +2

      Perhaps you missed the event of the crash!

    • @animaltvi9515
      @animaltvi9515 4 місяці тому +6

      ​@@jbird6609don't know about the first accident ? But the last on was no fault of concorde it was due to shoddy maintenance on an American airliner that the bit fell off of .

    • @MyFluffyClouds
      @MyFluffyClouds 4 місяці тому

      |I agree.

    • @billmullins6833
      @billmullins6833 4 місяці тому +1

      @jbird6609 Concorde didn't "become" an economic failure, it was an economic failure from the get-go. Concorde NEVER turned a profit. If there had been money to be made with an SST you can bet any body part you want U.S. airlines would have clamored for Boeing or Lockheed or somebody to make an American one! The Boeing SST advanced to the full scale mockup stage and the airlines weren't interested in it.

  • @rocketmentor
    @rocketmentor 4 місяці тому

    low reoccurring cost will be the real milestone, will it be affordable to all as it is now? Thank you for the video.

  • @notyouraveragegoldenpotato
    @notyouraveragegoldenpotato 4 місяці тому +12

    No live view out the front windscreen? Hard nope

    • @tdw5933
      @tdw5933 4 місяці тому +2

      Gotta be able to see,a camera can fail for a number of reasons

    • @fredflinstone8628
      @fredflinstone8628 4 місяці тому +1

      You do understand that the concept of flying on instruments is essential to commercial airlines...or maybe you don't. Inclement weather, etc. Moreover, spatial disorientation is one of the most common causes of airplane and helicopter crashes with pilots who aren't able to fly on instruments alone. Kobe Bryant crash is a perfect example. Or JFK Jr. is another.

    • @tdw5933
      @tdw5933 4 місяці тому

      @@fredflinstone8628 both pilot errors.

    • @susanschofield2705
      @susanschofield2705 4 місяці тому

      @@tdw5933the error being pilot unable to believe the instruments right in front of them

  • @rtbeerzi
    @rtbeerzi 4 місяці тому

    One day, not anytime soon, this will be a great necessity

  • @InquisitiveBaldMan
    @InquisitiveBaldMan 4 місяці тому +3

    Stall speed 700mph

  • @andree.b4723
    @andree.b4723 4 місяці тому

    Nice Skunk work!

  • @Dhannibal01
    @Dhannibal01 4 місяці тому +5

    The sonic boom is the sound of freedom.

    • @Jack-bs6zb
      @Jack-bs6zb 4 місяці тому +1

      You’re confusing sonic booms with flatulance - the freedom to fart is indeed true freedom.

  • @BDZ559
    @BDZ559 4 місяці тому

    Every time the narrator says SONIC BOOM lmao hilarious for some reason

    • @7000fps
      @7000fps 4 місяці тому

      AI voice

  • @TheDwightMamba
    @TheDwightMamba 4 місяці тому +43

    All I see is my tax dollars avoiding high-speed rail.

    • @kirkjohnson6638
      @kirkjohnson6638 4 місяці тому +8

      Nobody wants high speed rail. It's far too costly and impractical for our large country. We just recently got high speed rail from Orlando, FL to the Miami area. There is one stop in Orlando and I think there are either four or five stations in the Miami area. The only people that train actually serves live in Orlando or Miami AND have a frequent need to travel between them. More stops could be added along the way, but the more stops you have, the less the time advantage of the train over a car and the less attractive it is compared to a faster plane.

    • @TheDwightMamba
      @TheDwightMamba 4 місяці тому +2

      @@kirkjohnson6638 People go to Orlando OR Miami. Nobody needs both.
      But... how long do you think it will take for this scaled down demonstrator plane to become a real-world travel option? Europe is full of high-speed rail and guess what, genius...
      They turn a profit.

    • @kirkjohnson6638
      @kirkjohnson6638 4 місяці тому

      @@TheDwightMamba The high speed train in FL only travels between Orlando and Miami. Unless you want to go from Orlando to Miami or miami to Orlando, that train is of no use to you. And, that train goes about 80 mph, so it doesn't aave much time over driving.
      And, yeah, I've ridden a high speed train in France from Paris to Lyon. It's decent and you can save about $100 or so compared to flying but it takes a bit longer.
      The only places that high speed train makes sense in the US is along the northeastern seaboard because that is the only area with enough major cities spaced closely enough to generate fares and where people can save enough time and money to be worth taking the train vs. driving or flying.
      As soon as you try to go through the interior of the US, the spacing between major cities makes flying a much better option.
      The west coast cold possibly be a good place for a high speed train, but as everyone in CA has been learning for decades, its way to expensive to build. They have been working on it for 45 years and have had to scale it back to a short route between Bakersfield and Merced. According to Google, the high speed rail in CA has already cost over $11.2 billion to go 119 miles through rural lands. When they try to buy suburban and urban land to extend the train between San Diego and Sacramento the costs will skyrocket as will the time needed to negotiate deals with thousands of land owners rather than a few mega land owners in the central valley. By the time they get it done everyone will either be telecommuting, taking their self driving cars while sleeping, or will already be neuralinked into the cyberworld.

    • @billmullins6833
      @billmullins6833 4 місяці тому +1

      @TheDwightMamba Guess what, GENIUS, this isn't Europe. If there was a market for high-speed rail they wouldn't need tax dollars to pay for the things!

    • @TheDwightMamba
      @TheDwightMamba 4 місяці тому +4

      @@billmullins6833 are you aware that NASA paid NG $247.5 million for this demonstrator?.... with... um... tax money?
      Weird. If the market for supersonic travel was there, why does the government have to pay for it?
      Dude called me a genius and went ALL CAPS to do it.
      Thank you for proving my statement with your ill-informed statement.

  • @lodewijklangeweg742
    @lodewijklangeweg742 4 місяці тому

    The Concorde only flew at supersonic speed over the Atlantic.. I heard some sonic booms as a young boy in the Netherlands when our air force had gotten planes flying faster than the speed of sound. It was not too bad. Just a short loud "Boom!" No windows broke. 😁

  • @hoffmaestro88
    @hoffmaestro88 4 місяці тому +6

    Boeing has left the chat…

    • @L3HMANNN
      @L3HMANNN 4 місяці тому

      Boeing needs to close it's doors.

    • @annalorree
      @annalorree 4 місяці тому

      😂

  • @idavid2619
    @idavid2619 4 місяці тому

    What’s the background music used? Sounds really good 😮

  • @OfficerChungus
    @OfficerChungus 4 місяці тому +9

    Rapid medical response lol

    • @JamesHughes-ij6cr
      @JamesHughes-ij6cr 4 місяці тому

      We could have that if insurance company's would step out of the way.

  • @donniejo8888
    @donniejo8888 4 місяці тому

    as a Kid I used to hear Sonic booms EVERY DAY Army bray and Central FL transplant kid 80s-2000's we Loved it as kids

    • @donniejo8888
      @donniejo8888 4 місяці тому

      I was also Born in Concord So Im biased

  • @NKBobcat
    @NKBobcat 4 місяці тому +5

    They had Karen's back in 1971!

  • @xrysf03
    @xrysf03 4 місяці тому +1

    The screen at 8:16 is the UEFI Shell - hinting at a somewhat modern PC computer (probably x86_64). The UEFI shell is often configured ex factory (on the motherboard) as a "boot profile of last resort" = its appearance usually signals that the PC has failed to find a suitable boot drive with a proper operating system.

  • @eligebrown8998
    @eligebrown8998 4 місяці тому +3

    They unveiled it but won't be ready for another 5 years at least

  • @brianroberts815
    @brianroberts815 4 місяці тому

    I actually remember hearing the defening sonic boom!!! Yeah, my father and i were burning leaves in the street. Decatur, Illinois, in the early 60s. BOOM !!!

  • @allenstewart5624
    @allenstewart5624 4 місяці тому +3

    Silent vehicles will not be part of the secret society's space force. Terrance Howard has cracked the ongoing mathematical errors at the highest levels. Now that this barrier is broken, they will make ships that decouple/disconnect from the forces that hold it. There was no need for wings, and shape would not inhibit the ship from traveling through space. These are new only to us. All these things we finally see are 40 to 50 years outdated from the place actually achieved.

  • @scottfranco1962
    @scottfranco1962 4 місяці тому

    I was at the Reno air races and a military jet broke the sound barrier in front of the crowd. It was an accident, he misread the mach meter, it got written up in the papers the next day. It was loud, like a bomb going off nearby, but not earsplitting. The most interesting thing was the air around me suddenly felt solid and pushed me briefly, a very odd sensation.

  • @alanroberts703
    @alanroberts703 4 місяці тому +3

    there is no R in Nasa

  • @user-vp1sc7tt4m
    @user-vp1sc7tt4m 4 місяці тому

    Over many years technology improvement testing has been taken on by NASA and although this does not look like something specifically that we will see benefiting us soon, I would guess the lessons learned from this program will help in the future when high speed atmospheric or trans-orbit/atmospheric transportation of cargo and people will be developed.

  • @tlcetc4506
    @tlcetc4506 4 місяці тому +17

    Only those two things, huh? I think she forget something. What about the hard work of the taxpayers and their $$$???

    • @paulmorissette5863
      @paulmorissette5863 4 місяці тому

      ..entire...team.

    • @fuzzysniper
      @fuzzysniper 4 місяці тому

      ​@paulmorissette5863 she stated "X59 team".
      We aren't part of the "team".
      You might be, but the majority of us are part of the working masses that the government steals from in order to fund things.

  • @undertow2142
    @undertow2142 4 місяці тому +2

    Batteries with at least double capacity/weight as the best we have today make electric boosted supersonic ram air hybrid jets a possibility. Electric motors can push air at a speed into the RAM jet engine for it to work until the plane is going fast enough the motors can be shut off and it flies via supersonic RAM jet power at Mach 5 to its destination.

    • @recoilrob324
      @recoilrob324 4 місяці тому +4

      Pushing air past Mach 2 into the RAM jet isn't going to happen with electric motors my friend. That's a LOT of power needed as well as dealing with the transition from sub to supersonic airflow. I'm waiting for the test results of this 'quiet boom' airplane which I believe isn't going to end up with passenger airliners being made for supersonic travel ever again due to fuel efficiency problems. The military will gain some tech info from it no doubt...but when paying customers are involved...this is going to be WAY too expensive.

  • @TRICK-OR-TREAT236
    @TRICK-OR-TREAT236 4 місяці тому +17

    HOW DID NASA BECOME NAWSA AND WHY ? 😂 🤣 😂

  • @terrortorn
    @terrortorn 4 місяці тому +1

    Supersonic passenger flight was reached with Concorde in the 70's

  • @cam35mm
    @cam35mm 4 місяці тому +9

    Meh...nothing burger

  • @paulcooper8818
    @paulcooper8818 4 місяці тому +2

    The X-59 will sound like a dishwasher exploding for less than a second

  • @rogerrussell9544
    @rogerrussell9544 4 місяці тому +6

    Thankfully it wasn't Boeing, the doors might stay put where they belong.

  • @bc_life2374
    @bc_life2374 4 місяці тому

    Question. No forward view, computer problem camera shuts off.... now what?

  • @TheKingacevedo
    @TheKingacevedo 4 місяці тому +2

    Let's hope there's a secondary, completely separate, front camera system in the event the primary craps out.

    • @MegaLokopo
      @MegaLokopo 4 місяці тому +1

      I used to believe that no system would be implemented in commercial aviation without a certain level of redundancy, but Boeing and airbus really like proving me wrong. I will say though, after the first few crashes I am sure the government agencies will step in and make those systems redundant and much safer.

    • @brucemacrobbie5527
      @brucemacrobbie5527 4 місяці тому +1

      Makes me think of Lindberg's periscope in the Spirit of St. Louis.

  • @rocketmentor
    @rocketmentor 4 місяці тому

    Having work at Edwards AFB, Rocket Lab, I experienced sonic booms and they were downright painful even causing an instant bout of anger which passed. I would like to hear this new to compare the difference.

  • @SETIxy
    @SETIxy 4 місяці тому +8

    waste of time and money.

  • @AlphaMachina
    @AlphaMachina 4 місяці тому

    Just when I thought we'd be expecting hypersonic passenger flight.

  • @dhackens
    @dhackens 4 місяці тому +3

    How many trillion dollar's did that cost us tax payer ?

    • @apeshitcrazyman
      @apeshitcrazyman 4 місяці тому +1

      It was a NASA project dude, so a fraction of that budget...much less than military spending... and unlike the damn overflowed darpa and skunkworks projects that take billions, and out of the military budget, this is in the hands of real aeronautical engineers and astronauts and scientists.

  • @Zookies_710
    @Zookies_710 4 місяці тому +1

    Awesome machine 😊

  • @brennanherbon5598
    @brennanherbon5598 4 місяці тому +6

    What a waste of tax payer dollars

  • @MidnightMiik
    @MidnightMiik 4 місяці тому

    Idk. 75dB may not sound like a big deal in the city but it can get old pretty quickly. If you’re in the flight path of major routes where you might hear one every 5 to 10 minutes, it could get old real fast. Unlike subsonic jets that sound more like a drone, sonic booms are booms. Similar to a large firework as heard from half a mile away. Once or twice a day would be tolerable but every 5-10 min, 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week…
    I don’t think so.

  • @captnjim44smith74
    @captnjim44smith74 4 місяці тому +3

    How about American narrators from now on ! We don’t pronounce “mobile” as Europeans do !

    • @ianpunter4486
      @ianpunter4486 4 місяці тому +1

      Oh I don't know! American or European? I prefer someone who speaks English.

  • @bunnyfufu9933
    @bunnyfufu9933 4 місяці тому

    Nasa doing amazing things with the little budget compared to military ❤

  • @marybourgeois5235
    @marybourgeois5235 4 місяці тому

    When i was little n in elementary school n not to far from Ellington AFB, we'd constantly hear sonic booms. The astronauts would be in Nasa jets practicing. Talk about JUMP OUT OF YOU DESK!!! That was in the 60s❤

  • @fgadenz
    @fgadenz 4 місяці тому

    Amazing. I just had some gaps trying to imagine the size and other measurents in body part units. Like: it measures 230 tongues, and climb up to 1.000 giraffes. necks…

  • @kenmilne2379
    @kenmilne2379 4 місяці тому

    Mad place !! 🤘🤘

  • @gargoyleb
    @gargoyleb 4 місяці тому

    I saw an experiment years ago where they took the cockpit from a 727(I think) and put it between the wings, using cameras where you think they would go. Just about every pilot said it was easier to fly.

  • @rodwallace6237
    @rodwallace6237 4 місяці тому

    McDonnell Aircraft tests jets around the St.Louis area.
    At first they were great fun, everybody jump started, and
    watched the cracks race down the plaster walls. 1963.
    After that, got old. After that, pain in the sweet acidophilus.

  • @Umanflyumanfly
    @Umanflyumanfly 4 місяці тому

    This is called declassified ( remnant technology ) used in the Classified Aurora Project . Its a looking glass in what they can release .