NASA is working on a passenger plane that would make the Concorde look slow.<\/p>\n
This supersonic jet can you get from London to New York and back in record time.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: The mammoth cost of a Concorde ticket and the reasons it is no longer around today<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n People are already calling it the \u2018New Concorde\u2019, but it is actually a lot faster than the Concorde.<\/p>\n NASA partnered up with aerospace company Lockheed Martin to tweak the company\u2019s supersonic jet called \u2018Quesst X59<\/a>\u2018.<\/p>\n The upgraded jet would be capable of reaching Mach 1.4 (1488 km\/h) and potentially even Mach 1.95 (2,400 km\/h).<\/p>\n At that speed, the plane would be capable of traveling from NYC to London in 90 minutes \u2013 twice as fast as a Concorde.<\/p>\n This means you can start watching a soccer game when the plane takes off and by the time it lands, the game will still be in extra time.<\/p>\n The plan is to connect at least 50 cities between the US and Europe.<\/p>\n <\/a>Lockheed Martin<\/p>\n The sleek red, white and NASA \u2018Sonic Blue\u2019 livery is more than just a tribute to the American flag.<\/p>\n The NASA X59 uses a special type of paint that protects the aircraft from corrosion and moisture.<\/p>\n It also includes key safety markings to assist flight operations when the plane is about to land.<\/p>\n <\/a>NASA<\/p>\n NASA is leaving no stone unturned.<\/p>\n They\u2019re even having to work on a way to reduce to noise from the signature \u2018sonic boom\u2019 that occurs when supersonic vehicles that break the speed of sound<\/a>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s iconic, but also slightly annoying.<\/p>\n Especially for people on the ground.<\/p>\n <\/a>NASA<\/p>\n The last Concorde flight<\/a>, almost exactly 20 years ago, took 100+ passengers from New York City to London Heathrow in three hours and 20 minutes.<\/p>\n There are movies that are longer than that these days.<\/p>\n After the Concorde was gone, we got back to \u2018normal\u2019 aircraft, which take anywhere from seven to nine hours depending on the route the airline chooses.<\/p>\n The \u2018new Concorde\u2019 \u2013 the NASA X59 \u2013 would be a game changer for transoceanic travel.<\/p>\n NASA is currently working<\/a> on a first test flight ahead of the plane\u2019s maiden flight in the future.<\/p>\n Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n The post \u2018New Concorde\u2019 jet that flies from New York to London in 90 minutes set to make first flight<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NASA is working on a passenger plane that would make the Concorde look slow. This supersonic jet can you get from London to New York and back in record time. READ MORE: The mammoth cost of a Concorde ticket and the reasons it is no longer around today People are already calling it the \u2018New …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,254,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-english","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}