Apr 3, 2018
Lockheed wins nearly $250 million NASA contract to build supersonic plane
Posted by Sidney Clouston in category: transportation
Silence is Golden.
Lockheed Martin has won a nearly quarter-billion dollar NASA contract to develop a plane capable of supersonic speed without creating the deafening sonic boom that comes with breaking the sound barrier.
The cost-plus NASA contract, valued at $247.5 million, will allow the defense contractor’s secretive Skunk Works division to continue development of Lockheed Martin’s Quiet Supersonic Technology (or QueSST) aircraft.
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