Beyond The Sprues

Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Aero-space => Topic started by: Frank3k on March 18, 2012, 04:48:56 AM

Title: Supersonic biplane
Post by: Frank3k on March 18, 2012, 04:48:56 AM

Not a pretty sight. (http://dvice.com/archives/2012/03/misora-biplane.php)

Title: Re: Supersonic biplane
Post by: Jeffry Fontaine on March 18, 2012, 07:07:58 AM

You were not kidding.  Definitely not a pleasing sight. 

Title: Re: Supersonic biplane
Post by: raafif on March 18, 2012, 09:36:20 AM

Ha Ha !  yet another whiff from NASA !! :icon_fsm:  Always trying to get more funding.

Jacque Fresco actually designed an electro-static method of reducing sonic-booms while working at Wright-Dayton - the USAF patented it.  (he designed some early space-stations for NASA too).

Title: Re: Supersonic biplane
Post by: Dr. YoKai on March 20, 2012, 05:46:49 AM

raafif wrote

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Ha Ha !  yet another whiff from NASA !! :icon_fsm:   Always trying to get more funding.

Actually, no.

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Misora (the honorific name for "sky" in Japanese) is a conceptual design for an entirely new sort of supersonic aircraft, from the Institute of Fluid Science at Tohoku University.

 ( I would have said Popular Science ;) )

 Its pretty neat looking-I hope somebody takes the notion seiously enough to at least do some
 test aircraft.

Title: Re: Supersonic biplane
Post by: elmayerle on March 20, 2012, 08:25:00 AM

Interesting derivative of the "Busemann Biplane" configuration.

Title: Re: Supersonic biplane
Post by: Tophe on March 26, 2012, 11:33:42 AM

Very interesting, very weird, I love it! :-*