Global Aircraft -- Forum (QSST)

[ aerofreak ]

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Subject: QSST

Post ID# 1183

Message Number 1
Date Posted: 04 April 2007, 12:44:45 AM

Has anyone heard of the QSST (Quiet Super-Sonic Transport)? There was an articel on it in Popular Science in March. It is a private supersonic jet that makes no sonic boom.

[ oxusaf ]

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Subject: QSST

Post ID# 1189

Message Number 2
Date Posted: 23 April 2007, 1:18:20 PM

I have read the article and the aircraft (Lockheed Martin fyi) does make a sonic boom (can't avoid it) but the design is supposed to lower the sound that the boom makes. I belive it was the Dryden side of NASA-Dryden that modified an F-5's nose portion and the sound was decreased.