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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>A painted version of the aircraft will be publicly unveiled next week. Engineers hope one distinctive physical characteristic will usher in an age of quieter supersonic flight.<\/p>\n

In the latter half of the 20th century the world briefly entered the age of supersonic travel with the debut of the Concorde and the Soviet Union\u2019s Tupolev Tu-144. The technology was ultimately retired, but NASA hopes an experimental aircraft set to be unveiled next week will mark the return of the high-speed form of transport.<\/p>\n

A fully-painted X-59 Quesst will finally see the light of day after almost six years of construction by Lockheed Martin in California. Like the Concorde and Tu-144, the X-59 is designed to travel faster than the speed of sound, but with one key difference: engineers hope the quieter noise levels produced by the plane will overcome one of the key drawbacks of previous iterations of the technology.<\/b><\/p>\n

The aircraft produces less noise due to one key physical characteristic. A sharp, 38-foot nose on the front of the plane allows it to more easily slice through the air, reducing older supersonic planes\u2019 characteristic ear piercing sonic booms to something more akin to the sound of slamming a car door.<\/p>\n

The unique feature is similar in intent to the long noses on Japan\u2019s most recent high-speed trains, which are designed to lessen the noise they create when entering tunnels.<\/p>\n

Engineers hope the technology can usher in a new era of commercial supersonic transport, having addressed one of its key problems. Formerly, supersonic flights were forced to travel over unpopulated areas in order to not disturb people on the ground below.<\/b><\/p>\n

NASA plans to fly the X-59 over residential neighborhoods to see if the noise level created by the aircraft is acceptable. After that, they\u2019ll seek regulatory approval to reinaugurate supersonic commercial flight.<\/p>\n

Novel technology will be key to the experimental plane\u2019s operation in more ways than one. While supersonic planes previously maintained pilots\u2019 forward vision by employing a \u201cdrooped\u201d nose design, the X-59 has no such feature.<\/p>\n

In fact, it doesn\u2019t even have windows on the front of the aircraft. Pilots will instead see ahead through the use of cameras transmitting video to the cockpit on an electronic screen.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to create an electronic means of vision for the X-59 pilot that provides performance and safety levels equivalent to or better than forward-facing windows,\u201d said Randy Bailey, a lead designer of the so-called eXternal Visibility System (XVS) technology.<\/p>\n

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