The dream of Concorde returns

It is a futuristic dream from more than 50 years ago and perhaps one of the most beautiful airplanes ever built, with permission of the one built by the Soviets which, although it looked very similar, was not a copy. The Concorde was a commercial plane that reached supersonic speeds, now NASA has announced that it has ready its type of supersonic plane, the X-59, and that it will fly over cities. It returns to the idea that gave rise to the Concord, that is , create a commercial airplane that exceeds the speed of sound, but improving the technology to avoid the defects that the Concord had.

The Concorde was a product of companies from France and the United Kingdom, it was a technological marvel in its time that allowed the trip between Paris and New York to be made in 3 hours and 30 minutes. The photo above is from its first flight 54 years ago. years and the one below is more than 45 years old, it is from the Concord flying at twice the speed of sound, it certainly looked like a ship taken from science fiction ahead of its time.

As I told you, the Russians also had their version of a supersonic plane very similar to the Concorde, called Túpolev Tu-144, which, although it looks very similar to the Concorde, is a technology developed in a pending manner, the work of the Wizard of Aviation Alekséi Túpolev, his Its first flight was a few months before that of the Concorde, but the Tupolev Tu-144 had a shorter range and unfortunately consumed even more fuel than the Concorde, so its use was much less.

The Concorde had several problems, it achieved that extraordinary speed at the cost of high fuel consumption and it had a monstrous noise due to the sonic boom that it caused when the plane exceeded the sound barrier, this is what NASA seems to have solved with the X -59 is supersonic, but at the same time silent, something that will soon be tested flying over cities in the United States.

NASA is not the only one that wants to achieve Supersonic commercial airplanes without the problems of yesteryear, the American company boom supersonic (the name is perfect) is developing its overt that will be able to fly at mach 1.7 transporting up to 80 passengers.

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