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NASA's experimental supersonic jet edges toward first flight | Digital Trends
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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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Cool. A car door closing is far more acceptable than thinking you're being bombed. But yeah, the nose on it is really long. Considering that this experimental craft can only carry a pilot, any kind of passenger craft using the same technique would have to be absolutely enormous.
I don't know. It's long and skinny so I image if it was scaled up you could fit one or two columns of seats in there no problem.
Mandatory reminder that burning 10x the fuel to cut a few hours off a flight is insane in our present climate predicament.