NASA joined the supersonic race

Leading US aerospace corporations - Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Gulfstream and NASA - have entered into an alliance to create a "Son of Concorde» (Son of Concorde), the supersonic passenger aircraft. Ideas about the revival of air travel at high speeds is firmly seated in the minds of aviation enthusiasts. Some dream restart the legendary "Concord" and other private dream supersonic airliners. Judging by the abundance of projects, sooner or later, the dream of the designers will be carried out. After all, even 10 years ago private spacecraft seemed a pipe dream, and now are real fantasy embodied in metal and composite materials. The joint project of the American companies is the code name X-54. Airspeed designed aircraft will exceed 4000 km / h. For comparison, Gulfstream G650 to the limit, at the peak, accelerated to 1188 km / h. The emergence of "a descendant Concorde" in the sky is not expected until 2030 - when they worked out all the technology.