If you have ever thought that the speed of the airplane does not develop too much, it is not due to lack of interest or lack of technology. While it is possible to manufacture supersonic aircraft – that travel above the speed of sound – there are restrictions on commercial flights at such speed over the US because they are caused by noise. Booms caused by supersonic flight are very loud at about 110 decibels, which causes major disturbances to people on the ground.
So NASA is working on a new design of a supersonic aircraft, which causes a sound bounce, a cool sonic “tamping”. The hope is that if this technique can be developed, it can enable fast flights without harassing people living below the flight routes.
NASA plans to develop the X-59 cool supersonic technology aircraft, and the engineers on the recent commercial supersonic technology (CST) project tested a small scale model of design in a supersonic wind tunnel in NASA Glenn, to see how it would fare at high speed.
“It is the team's opportunity to get data at low sound levels produced in the tunnel,” said Clayton Mayor, deputy project manager of CST project. statement“It all comes down to our ability to measure the Thap.”
The test used a foot monitored by cameras and sensors in the wind tunnel and a model for a half -long time. The results seem promising, as they match the previous computer models of the waves of shock and strength, suggesting that the design can be effective for a cool supersonic flight.
John Wolter, lead researcher at the X -59 Sonic Boom Wind Tunnel Test, said, “With X -59, we want to show up that we can calm the annoying sound boom a little more, called 'Sonic Thamps'.” The target regulators have to provide noise and community reaction data, resulting in new rules for overland supersonic flight. The test proved that we do not only have a cool aircraft design, but we also have the exact equipment required to predict the noise of the future aircraft. “
Currently a full-scale X-59 is being constructed, the aim is to start test flights at the end of this year.
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