New ‘Concorde’ on brink of cutting flight time between London and New York to 4 hours | World | News
A high -tech supersonic aircraft called ‘the son of Concorde’ can reduce flights between New York and London to a shorter than four hours. The futuristic X-59 is now in the taxi test phase, which means that the plane on the floor maneuver at varying speeds to assess transport features, performance and system behavior, especially during departure and landing.
For years, different manufacturers have been investigating how to bring a plane with Concorde’s capabilities to the sky. The Anglo-French Supersonic Passenger plane was the jealousy of the world and flew from 1976 to 2003 when the jet was grounded. The movement came three years after a single fatal accident containing the plane, which killed all 109 people.
A British Airways Concorde with a cruise rate of about 1,354 miles, on February 7, 1996, the fastest London was incredibly 2 hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds, Concorde’s successor to find the successor, warming up and NASA’s X-59 silent supersonic research first started a brand. The plane moved under his own power.
NASA and contractor Lockheed Martin staff NASA Test Pilot Nils Larson and X-59 team, Palmdale, California, the US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, the first low-speed taxi test completed the test.
The Taxi represents the X-59’s last place tests series before the first flight. In the coming weeks, the plane will gradually increase its speed and lead to a high -speed taxi test, which will only take a short time of the point where the plane will be lifted.
During low-speed tests, engineers and flight teams watched how the X-59 was handled along the runway and that it was working to verify critical systems such as steering and braking. These controls help maintain the stability and control of the aircraft under a number of conditions and give pilots and engineers confidence that all systems work as expected.
The X-59 is the center of NASA’s Quesst mission, which aims to show silent supersonic flights by reducing loud sonic explosion as a quietest “fist”.
The aircraft is expected to fly Mach 1.5 or about 990 miles (1,590 km/h), so it can potentially fly from London to New York in about 3 hours and 44 minutes. Normal commercial flights usually last 7-8 hours.
In 2023, NASA explored the MACH 2 and Mach 4 (1,535-3,045 miles / h) theoretically traveling aircraft for supersonic passenger air travel.
The data collected from the X-59 will be shared with the US and international regulators to inform the establishment of new, data-based noise thresholds for supersonic commercial flights on the land.
Concorde’s last commercial flight from New York to London took place on October 24, 2003.
On 25 July 2000, the plane was grounded after the Air France Flight 4590 disaster. The malicious aircraft was killed 109 quiet and four were killed shortly after departure from Paris. This was the only deadly incident that included Concorde.
According to British Airways, the transition from a typical London to New York will take a little less than three and a half hours in Concorde.
Concorde was measured by approximately 204ft length and stretched between 6 and 10 inches on the flight due to the heating of the aircraft. It is painted with a white paint specially developed to meet these changes and distribute heat produced with supersonic flights.
