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Exclusive look at NASA’s low-boom supersonic plane
NASA and Lockheed Martin have reinvented aviation with the X-59 low-boom supersonic aircraft. And when it flies, they’re hoping you won’t even notice it. Read the full story on CNET: Subscribe to CNET: Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: Follow us on Instagram: Follow us on TikTok:
2coryman
July 8, 2021 at 5:45 pm
I saw the concord coming or going in Hawaii
Andre Barracuda
July 8, 2021 at 6:09 pm
35 death people don’t understand why there is a need to redesign this airplane
Antoni's Autos
July 9, 2021 at 1:18 am
Deaf
Rich V
July 8, 2021 at 6:22 pm
If this plane can do what they hope it can do it will still take at a minimum of a decade or more before it becomes truly viable commercially until then it’s just another experimental plane no matter how cool it is.
OmegaX
July 8, 2021 at 6:29 pm
Almost as big as the concord and holds 1 person 🤣
Phughy
July 8, 2021 at 10:06 pm
Almost as big? Almost half the size you mean? Graphics are misleading, read the numbers. 99’7″ vs 204′
OmegaX
July 8, 2021 at 10:08 pm
@Phughy Oh I misheard what they stated in the video. Thanks for clarifying it tho 🙂
Phughy
July 8, 2021 at 10:16 pm
@OmegaX a pleasure kind sir.
star. Watcher Steven
July 8, 2021 at 7:08 pm
I could listen to her reports constantly what a beautiful voice
Joe Gar
July 8, 2021 at 7:09 pm
The green new deal will shut their dreams.
Emma Bentley
July 8, 2021 at 8:22 pm
X Plane 11 for the win!
Someone
July 8, 2021 at 8:42 pm
room for 1 person. nice. excluding the pilot?
Nancy Rodriguez
July 8, 2021 at 8:48 pm
The feeble feigned sideboard ignificantly confess because wheel proportionately please including a vacuous transport. tested, modern golf
Max Jacoby
July 8, 2021 at 9:43 pm
If this ever turns into commercial aviation, passengers must be packed like fish in a can literally.
Troy Macgill
July 8, 2021 at 11:06 pm
Possibly; call it a wild guess but I would wager that the X-59’s follow-up commercial aircraft will be designed for the elites, while the peasants will be crammed into a sub-orbital Starship cattle car…
Jay O'Hara
July 8, 2021 at 9:43 pm
Pretty sure they said the same thing about the Concorde…
Simply Human
July 8, 2021 at 9:43 pm
The Concord was grounded because of a serious fatal accident killing 109 that reduced number of booked flights. They made money until then, contrary to your “report”.
Cost of maintenance, and noise levels during landing and takeoff was certainly another reason.
Jay O'Hara
July 8, 2021 at 9:44 pm
call it the Guile.
Jay O'Hara
July 8, 2021 at 9:48 pm
looks like a missile with wings…
Wanna Play?
July 8, 2021 at 10:09 pm
So NASA is doing this research to benefit commercial companies with our tax dollars? OK I’m sure it will have an instrumentation cavity built in(weapons bay).
Ben Davis
July 8, 2021 at 11:09 pm
That’s how a lot of technology works including covid vaccines. You just have to figure out how to take the tech, call it your own and monetize.
Elias Gallegos
July 8, 2021 at 10:22 pm
I’ve been waiting for someone to cover this, great job! Can’t wait for first flight!
Andrew Stewart
July 8, 2021 at 11:06 pm
More C02 emissions
Sacto1654
July 8, 2021 at 11:09 pm
It’s going to be interesting to compare the X-59 to the Boom XB-1, which is a privately-funded test plane researching the same sonic boom reduction technololgies.
Jakob
July 8, 2021 at 11:24 pm
Imagine a future where air force one could go supersonic.? 12:58
lol who cares if this prez can fly supersonic.. wuhuu Biden can fly supersonic. USA USA USA.. c’mon
no little CNET gal, imagine a future where USA didn’t tumble the world in pollution and sectarian tensions.
it’s freaking tragic to see the insane weapon sale Obama & Hillary adm. has undermined the world with.
you think it’s because Saud Arabia (who loves to finance these sunnnni-groups lSlL and AlQ4ida and chop-up up journalists at foreign embassies.) that the suddenly want a female USA prez.. Its the world’s most female-hostile nation.
why do you think Saudi regime was one of Hillarys biggest financiers to her prez campaign??
we want that insane trillion dollars weaponsale to continue from Obama ad… not good to weaponize some of the most ideological driven two tongue regimes to the teeth in modern western weapons.
Really liked Obama the first few years, but what a fluke. now top the charts on the adm. that has undermined the world the most.(and the claim that he is the most dangerous prez to ever sit in the white house certainly has some merits looking on macrostates)
Capt RRRdog
July 8, 2021 at 11:53 pm
waste of money.
ViKing
July 8, 2021 at 11:59 pm
Can it carry cruise missiles?
HarZoiD
July 9, 2021 at 12:29 am
Shoutout Palmdale
w23857980
July 9, 2021 at 12:40 am
Just use the headphone noise cancellation technology to eliminate the sonic boom.
John Clarke
July 9, 2021 at 12:42 am
This is crap. We got rid of sonic booms with the antigravity systems back in the 1980’s.
Luis M
July 9, 2021 at 1:02 am
How is it that we have computational fluid dynamic computer simulations but we are producing aircraft at a far slower pace than in the 60s when we didn’t have computers? Lockheed seems to have been working on this jet for what seems like forever now.
ThePsyclepath
July 9, 2021 at 1:40 pm
So the riches can burn fossil fuel at FOUR times the rate they do already, while we have to deal with the noise and environmental breakdown. Paris Hilton already has 1200x the average American’s carbon footprint even without flying supersonic.
shush2000
July 9, 2021 at 2:30 pm
This is cool, sure, but how ridiculous-looking and long will this plane have to be to carry 100 people…
Mike Shane
July 9, 2021 at 3:31 pm
NASA has the best acronyms!
spontanp
July 9, 2021 at 4:30 pm
Commercial planes of that type are going to be long AF 😀 epic designs incoming
AliFernz
July 9, 2021 at 5:53 pm
This is making us think it’s an earthquake STOP THAT NOW !
Qasim Parekh
July 9, 2021 at 5:56 pm
Or catch the tic tac UFO! Problem solved
Marciano Demidof
July 9, 2021 at 6:09 pm
One of those reasons why i love NASA.
Jätski.fi
July 9, 2021 at 6:44 pm
direct all air on the nose away from the parts
Jätski.fi
July 9, 2021 at 6:44 pm
have vacuum over the parts, a vacuum bubble cushion
Jätski.fi
July 9, 2021 at 6:46 pm
if you try to make a rocket, dont make plane
Jätski.fi
July 9, 2021 at 6:52 pm
enclosed opening tilt wing for ascent/descent
frederic rike
July 9, 2021 at 6:48 pm
If anybody can build a single prototype of something and accomplish this, Lockheed-Martin would have been my first through tenth choice. This is the kind of thing that happens in America when We go with the science. FR
Claire Reilly
July 9, 2021 at 7:52 pm
I’m sad I never got to fly on Concorde (the ’70s fashion in those ads was 😚👌) but I would definitely want to fly on a supersonic jet! But would it be worth the ticket price?
Steven Irby
July 9, 2021 at 10:51 pm
Same here. If you ever go to Toulouse, France I highly recommend going to the museum there to see them in real life. I was super excited to see one in real life.
Ronald Isabel
July 10, 2021 at 12:10 am
Airplane 547 mph
Speed of sound 761 mph
Do the math
Mike Coshan
July 10, 2021 at 9:51 am
I’ve been on Concorde (pre wheelchair ) but never flown on it sadly. This is the Cyrano De Bergerac of planes it looks intriguing but I’d fly on it if I had the money
Lance McCarthy
July 11, 2021 at 12:54 am
As a passenger, you would not notice any difference between sub or supersonic flight. That said, you’d definitely notice arriving many hours earlier than your friends who took the normal fight 😁
Nils Pochat
July 11, 2021 at 5:13 pm
I saw one’s interior as a kid. By then it was already in a museum (used to live near the Bourget – pronounce [bour-jai]). It wasn’t possible to see its interior soon after that, and i doubt anyone visiting is able to see it at all these days.
Songs
July 11, 2021 at 5:13 pm
Same here. I wanna fly on this too, and go directly to heaven.
Shaner The Grey
July 11, 2021 at 5:16 pm
You’re so fine.
Guido Perdomo
July 11, 2021 at 6:14 pm
this video was absolutely fantastic, congratulations!
Lauren Middleton
July 11, 2021 at 7:59 pm
Supposedly the Concord could spin all the way around (going upside down) without an issue.
jimmyohdez
July 9, 2021 at 8:12 pm
What’s going on with my boy Larry’s haircut? 6:22
Lars Jørgensen
July 9, 2021 at 9:02 pm
Scaling this design up to 100 passengers would make it something like 120 meters long.
The design looks to have very little practical spare space, to allow for passengers in the full size version.
Lossy Lossnitzer
July 9, 2021 at 9:38 pm
gull like wings – like gulls travel faster than the speed of sound, maybe that is why we do not hear a sonic boom when gulls fly 🙂
Thank you for sharing I look forward to seeing the Chinese version in flight next week.
Vince M
July 9, 2021 at 9:41 pm
I understand why this guy is emotional, I was never smart enough to work for the company ( and a bit lazy hehe ) but I always envied aerospace engineers
ThatSlowTypingGuy
July 9, 2021 at 9:45 pm
Once it’s perfected maybe they’ll make the XFA-27?
Ziggybits
July 9, 2021 at 10:17 pm
when will we know the results of the test flight?
allothernamesbutthis
July 9, 2021 at 10:22 pm
Concorde 50 odd years old and this is the future?
Vatal
July 9, 2021 at 10:50 pm
Thanks for using metrics in this video. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Skougi
July 9, 2021 at 11:33 pm
Someone should tell that aircraft to stop lying so much hehe thanks for posting.
DeZiio
July 9, 2021 at 11:49 pm
So two decades and we went from 100 passengers to 1
hmmm…
Ronald Isabel
July 10, 2021 at 12:08 am
Why not just fly right under the speed of sound 💀💀💀
hifijohn
July 10, 2021 at 12:11 am
it’s huge for just one person,so how long would it be for 100 passengers.
rumbepack
July 10, 2021 at 12:14 am
They made the x-15 when they only had rulers, pencils and paper now with all the digital design and simulation tools this feels super underwhelming.
MacS7n
July 10, 2021 at 12:18 am
Nasal using an hd display on this multi million dollar project. Not even fullHD
Matt McIrvin
July 10, 2021 at 12:32 am
The boom wasn’t the only problem with supersonic flight–the main issue is that it’s even more inefficient than subsonic flight, and burns a tremendous amount of fuel. I know United is advertising they’ll generate their fuel in some carbon-neutral way (biofuels?) but you could do that for any plane, in principle–the question is whether it can be economically sustainable. This is a big problem across the whole aviation industry, and planes that burn more fuel to go that fast certainly won’t help.
Ultimately, the issue with the Concorde was that few people were willing to pay that much for supersonic flight except as a pure status symbol. Most people just don’t need to commute across an ocean faster than a typical jetliner will take you. Over the past year and a half, one thing we’ve learned is that in a world of networked business and instantaneous video conferencing accessible to the masses, a lot of business travel we used to do probably doesn’t need to happen at all. And when you’re traveling for pleasure, you’re not in as big a hurry.
mvpfocus
July 10, 2021 at 9:29 pm
9:05: What happens when the cameras fail, the monitors fail, and the instruments fail? Too much reliance on tech and not practical enough for the the things we can’t foresee. Still, a well presented video.
Vlad Iordanou
July 10, 2021 at 9:56 pm
I mean yeah Northwest US and Canada boil in heat but don’t let that dinner in New York get cold.
Calvin T
July 10, 2021 at 10:08 pm
Elon Musk: wait for plaid flights
Maarten Oosterbaan
July 10, 2021 at 10:22 pm
Breakfast in Paris and dinner in New York is very well possible with normal flights, even commercial if you plan it well…super sonic however makes it Lunch in Paris and Breakfast in New York…
Edric M
July 10, 2021 at 10:50 pm
Now figure out element zero and build the Normandy already NASA.
Lance Wang
July 10, 2021 at 11:24 pm
it will come down to two critical questions – how fast can it fly @ 75db, and how many people it can carry @ that speed.
I don’t think either number is going to be impressive, and therefore I don’t believe it can ever successfully commercialize.
Jeff B
July 10, 2021 at 11:39 pm
instead of making quieter stuff I think we should just increase the ordinance level.
Brian Brewster
July 11, 2021 at 12:03 am
I was in Brooklyn, NY about 20 years or so ago. I kept hearing these loud booms but couldn’t figure out where they originated. The guy who was hosting a graduation party for his son told me it was from the JFK airport located so far away you couldn’t see it without binoculars. So yea – that sounds awfully loud for people living anywhere near such a plane delivering sonic booms around the clock.
oldschoolman 144
July 11, 2021 at 12:29 am
Another big waist of money!
Akash Chopra
July 11, 2021 at 12:31 am
Little to no application for something this long with so much unusable space, other than to waste tax dollars via grant money. This is an utterly useless idea.
Umi
July 11, 2021 at 12:35 am
So when Lockheed Martin building an X-plane, they simulate it in X-plane, rather than it’s own Prepar3D, LOL
Tan Thien Nguyen
July 11, 2021 at 12:49 am
Danach die Rechnungen + Mahnungen + Zahlungsbefehl & Busse geht an mich……Wieso können Sie meine Rechnungen & Zahlungsbefehl an Tesla schicken…..?
Tan Thien Nguyen
July 11, 2021 at 12:50 am
Wie viele mals kann ich der Ström Rechnung nicht zahlen kann…..?
Tan Thien Nguyen
July 11, 2021 at 12:52 am
Seit 2017 bis heute So. 11. Juli 2021 ….Muss ich überall um jeder Rechnung zahlen suchen…………..?
Tan Thien Nguyen
July 11, 2021 at 12:52 am
Wo sind Herr Graf & Griffin….bitte…….?
Tan Thien Nguyen
July 11, 2021 at 12:55 am
Wie vieles mals habe ich mein Blut gegeben…..Sind jeder mals I.O ……? Was können Sie mich Verhunger & ohne Konto Banken habe……?
Tan Thien Nguyen
July 11, 2021 at 12:57 am
Können Sie von Logisch bis Vorwürfen nicht messen können….Wieso lernen Sie auf der Medizinisch oder Archtekture…..?
Rhenthalin
July 11, 2021 at 12:59 am
This is a message to the Chinese. ” We have super sonic stealth.”
Tan Thien Nguyen
July 11, 2021 at 12:59 am
Irgendswas passiert dann stellen Sie mein Strömen Zuhause sofort ab…..Ich bin nicht der Verbrechen…..Sorry
Tan Thien Nguyen
July 11, 2021 at 1:01 am
Lernen Sie als Inspektoren Länder ….? Wo ist der Wortlich & Gerechtigkeit……………?
Tan Thien Nguyen
July 11, 2021 at 1:03 am
Liebe wäre ich in anderen Länder mit weniger Verdienen & Respekte haben…..
Pedro Munoz
July 11, 2021 at 1:12 am
Its amazing how we went to the moon in 1969 and commercial supersonic in 1973……. and stopped. Its 2021 and we are doing it the right way now! We proved it was possible, now we are making it practical and actually safer.
Kenneth James
July 11, 2021 at 1:24 am
You would think they had enough money to make a decent animation of it lol
Eladio Rosa
July 11, 2021 at 1:27 am
So when they build a 100 passenger aircraft will it be 1000 feet long!!!!???
Karm G
July 11, 2021 at 8:54 pm
People forget that NASA isn’t just about space but atmospheric travel as well. Hopefully they keep getting a bigger budget
David Swanson
July 11, 2021 at 8:57 pm
That Air Force One render looks sick
MrQuazar
July 11, 2021 at 9:04 pm
What was problem of Concord, why they flying on supersonic over cities? They just must use low speed over ground, supersonic over sea.
C Dub
July 11, 2021 at 9:15 pm
Also available with super stealthy “Quietly Retreat Humiliated from Bagram” Button
L R
July 11, 2021 at 9:30 pm
The last helicopter out of Saigon was better though.
Dan Frederiksen
July 11, 2021 at 9:20 pm
It’s not completely uninteresting but those guys are liars. For lockheed skunkworks and test pilots of their designs, they have dealt with vastly more interesting things. Treasonous things perhaps. If you think about it, what could they have worked on that wouldn’t be much higher spec that this lame duck. Merely supersonic in 2021… When they built titanium mach 3 birds in 1958. Bish, please. Head of Lockheed skunkworks Ben Rich said in the 90s on multiple private occasions that they have the tech out in the desert to take ET home. Stuff that would make George Lucas envious. That anything you have seen in scifi has been done. Lockheed people, be warned, if you know something that the public should have known long ago, you better spill it or be ready to be tried for treason when the truth inevitably comes out. I’m guessing there will never be any real justice for that 70+ years of betrayal of mankind but if it was up to me you would all be tried and sentenced for treason. Obama the other day admitted in cowardly weasel way that UFOs are real. That exotic vehicles are being frequently encountered by the military. He also started by saying that he couldn’t talk about aliens. That’s something to think about. Wake up, people. Very quickly.
Rasta Koots
July 11, 2021 at 9:23 pm
What a waste of money you’d think nasa would learn to use their limited funding wisely by now
MUHAMMED KH
July 11, 2021 at 9:24 pm
i like planes with pointy noses at least you can take out enemy infantry with it in Videogames 😆
It'syeeOLEDskoolFurry
July 11, 2021 at 10:16 pm
You mean they used reverse engineered Technology from Alien spacecraft (to us humans anyway) that they have somewhere in SUPER SECRET under wraps. LOL… = oP Uhh Computational Fluid Dynamics?? Yea, That looks like a UFO to me!!! Hahahaha.. LoL… =oP X-D
Christopher Finn
July 11, 2021 at 10:21 pm
13:39 What a dork. Grow a pair.
SnarlyTrain
July 11, 2021 at 10:42 pm
Would probably go broke
Prathibha YR
July 11, 2021 at 10:50 pm
Nice video
Paul
July 11, 2021 at 10:58 pm
Looks rubbish compared to concorde and always will. Concorde should be still flying instead of this?
No No
July 11, 2021 at 10:58 pm
so we need planes shapped like a needle and 2 football fields long to seat 10 pasengers ??
got it .
Perry Caulkins
July 11, 2021 at 10:59 pm
Hahahaha “future of supersonic flight” as if we haven’t had zero-point aircraft traveling with no friction since the 40s. What a joke. The US government and NASA is a SCAM
Pilot Peego
July 11, 2021 at 11:52 pm
There’s a certain country that has the Xerox ready. 🤔
C. Neale
July 11, 2021 at 11:56 pm
Spectrum Is Green ⭕️⭕️
Armand Desarrierespays
July 11, 2021 at 11:57 pm
A few historical inaccuracies like Air France and BA joint effort building the concorde… it wasn’t the airlines that made the aircraft, it was Aérospatiale/BAC.
Armand Desarrierespays
July 11, 2021 at 11:58 pm
so if for one person it take a 100 foot body, how long will the aircraft need to be to carry 100 people?
Bert Nijhof
July 12, 2021 at 12:02 am
The problem has always been, that the Concorde was not an US aircraft. Why help the US competition?
vidsbyme
July 12, 2021 at 12:20 am
Stupid reporting. Not a single mention of the huge pollution and environmental factors of supersonic flight. Also, taxpayers, though NASA, paying for research for private companies that will never reimburse the taxpayers. Not to mention this will only benefit the wealthy. Not a single mention of a practical application for those non wealthy individuals.
Neil Haas
July 12, 2021 at 1:08 am
Space exploration. That’s an interesting plane of space x-59 supersonic plane. 🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️💟🎭👍👏
Neil Haas
July 12, 2021 at 1:13 am
X-59 for the win. Nasa has done it. Nice aircraft according to nasa lockheed martin aerospace technologies. The inside of the plane interesting.
Doc Morton
July 12, 2021 at 1:20 am
Low boom looks like no room.
Kevin Wiltshire
July 12, 2021 at 1:23 am
So how long does it have to be to carry 100 people 1000ft long?