{"id":177967,"date":"2024-11-19T11:18:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T11:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/19\/civil-plane-goes-supersonic-for-the-first-time-since-concorde\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T11:18:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T11:18:34","slug":"civil-plane-goes-supersonic-for-the-first-time-since-concorde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/19\/civil-plane-goes-supersonic-for-the-first-time-since-concorde\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil plane goes supersonic for the first time since Concorde"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A civil plane has gone supersonic for the first time since Concorde, after a successful test flight in New Zealand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dawn Aerospace’s rocket-powered plane will eventually be used to launch satellites into orbit and give daily access to space, according to the company.<\/p>\n

“This achievement signifies a major step toward operational hypersonic travel and daily space access, establishing rocket-powered aircraft as a new class of ultra-high-performance vehicles,” said the company in a statement.<\/p>\n

Although the successful flight was announced on Tuesday, the test took place on 12 November near Mt Cook in New Zealand’s South Island.<\/p>\n

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The plane, called Mk-11 Aurora, surpassed the speed of sound, reaching Mach 1.1 and 82,500 feet, according to Dawn Aerospace.<\/p>\n

Mach is a unit of velocity relative to the speed of sound, so Mach 1.1 is 10% faster than the speed of sound.<\/p>\n

“This achievement highlights the immense potential of rocket-powered aircraft to achieve performance never seen before,” said Stefan Powell, chief executive of Dawn Aerospace.<\/p>\n

Aurora is designed to fly to the edge of space twice a day once it is in operation and will reach speeds of Mach 3.5 during ascent and re-entry, according to the company.<\/p>\n

Are the glory days of Concorde coming again?<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the supersonic passenger plane Concorde landed for the final time in 2003, it appeared the days of superfast travel were over.<\/p>\n

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The plane was loud, causing a sonic boom whenever it passed the sound barrier, and expensive to run.<\/p>\n

However, multiple companies are working again to get passengers across the Atlantic in just a few hours.<\/p>\n

NASA and Lockheed Martin, for example, have developed the world’s first “quiet supersonic aircraft” that creates a “sonic thump” instead of a boom.<\/p>\n

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After testing it over airbases next year, the crew behind the Quesst mission will fly the X-59 over American towns and cities to see if the communities respond – or notice – the sonic thumps.<\/p>\n

If it all goes according to plan, they will submit all of their findings to the regulators in 2030 so a new age of quieter supersonic travel can begin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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