{"id":23007,"date":"2016-03-02T04:48:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T12:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/nasas-designing-a-passenger-jet-thatll-break-the-sound-barrier-without-the-boom"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:08:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:08:03","slug":"nasas-designing-a-passenger-jet-thatll-break-the-sound-barrier-without-the-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/nasas-designing-a-passenger-jet-thatll-break-the-sound-barrier-without-the-boom","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s designing a passenger jet that\u2019ll break the sound barrier WITHOUT the boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-designing-a-passenger-jet-thatll-break-the-sound-barrier-without-the-boom.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA has commissioned engineers to design a new kind of jet that can travel faster than the speed of sound, but without the telltale <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sonic_boom\"> sonic boom<\/a>. Instead, the aircraft will produce a soft thump as it breaks the sound barrier, which the researchers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-begins-work-to-build-a-quieter-supersonic-passenger-jet\"> adorably calling<\/a> a \u201csupersonic heartbeat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hoped that the new jet could eventually fill the commercial gap left by the retirement of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Concorde\"> Concorde<\/a> \u2014 which travelled at twice the speed of sound (Mach 2) and could get passengers from London to New York in just 3.5 hours \u2014 but without all the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anti-Concorde_Project\"> noise complaints<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From an engineering point of view, we\u2019ve long had the ability to travel at supersonic speeds \u2014 which is generally anything over 1,234 km\/h \u2014 but when we do, it triggers a sound explosion that can travel thousands of metres in a jet\u2019s wake, rattling houses and cars as it goes. As you can imagine, not exactly ideal for heavily trafficked flight paths.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-is-building-a-jet-that-breaks-the-speed-of-sound-without-the-supersonic-boom\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-is-building-a-jet-that-brea...sonic-boom<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has commissioned engineers to design a new kind of jet that can travel faster than the speed of sound, but without the telltale sonic boom. Instead, the aircraft will produce a soft thump as it breaks the sound barrier, which the researchers are adorably calling a \u201csupersonic heartbeat\u201d. It\u2019s hoped that the new jet [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68170,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007\/revisions\/68170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}