Modelling > Aero-space
Supersonic biplane
Frank3k:
Not a pretty sight.
Jeffry Fontaine:
You were not kidding. Definitely not a pleasing sight.
raafif:
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).
Dr. YoKai:
raafif wrote
--- Quote ---Ha Ha ! yet another whiff from NASA !! :icon_fsm: Always trying to get more funding.
--- End quote ---
Actually, no.
--- Quote ---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.
--- End quote ---
( 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.
elmayerle:
Interesting derivative of the "Busemann Biplane" configuration.
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