🇺🇸 DUALITY: THE ENGINE THAT EATS CONCORDE FOR BREAKFAST
Astro Mechanica just bagged fresh cash from United Airlines Ventures for its supersonic shapeshifter, Duality.
This isn’t Concorde nostalgia. Duality’s a hybrid-electric beast that flips modes mid-flight:
Turbofan on the runway, Turbojet skimming Mach 1, Ramjet screaming past Mach 3.
Fuel efficiency? Way better than Concorde’s guzzling coffin. That alone is a game-changer.
Astro says this could power the first true transpacific supersonic jet - SF to Tokyo in a few hours.
But the real flex is dual-use: the same engine can pump electricity into EW suites, ISR pods, maybe weapons systems.
Think flying power station with afterburners.
At Mach 3, the line between airline mobility and military dominance all but disappears.
Source: Interesting Engineering
🇺🇸 NASA’S “SON OF CONCORDE” JUST TAXIED INTO THE FUTURE
Quiet. Fast. And coming for your London brunch plans.
NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet - aka the “Son of Concorde” - just completed its first major ground test, inching closer to cutting your New York–London flight time in half.
It didn’t fly (yet), but it moved under its own power at Plant 42 in California - one long, sleek step toward its maiden flight later this year.
The mission:
Turn the earth-shaking sonic boom into a polite little “thump” - so regulators stop banning supersonic flights over land.
No commercial jet has flown passengers faster than sound since Concorde was grounded in 2003.
X-59 is here to change that - minus the window-rattling noise complaints.
Test flight soon.
Source: NASA, NDTV
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