February 10, 20251 yr Oh, wow, at about 8:40 he talks about how they can break the sound barrier without the sonic boom reaching the ground, which will enable them to get approval for supersonic flight over land. These test flights are pretty cool, but the real test will be with the full size version using medium-bypass turbine engines. Dave Simulator: P3Dv6.1 System Specs: Intel i7 13700K CPU, MSI Mag Z790 Tomahawk Motherboard, 32GB DDR5 6000MHz RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Video Card, 3x 1TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 2280 SSDs, Windows 11 Home OS My website for P3D stuff: https://sites.google.com/view/thep3dfiles/home
February 10, 20251 yr Author Yep... no sonic booms hit the ground during the test. The sonic boom issue was something we were both wondering about.
February 12, 20251 yr Moderator On 2/10/2025 at 4:00 PM, martin-w said: The sonic boom issue was something we were both wondering about. They should have named the aircraft "Noboom!" Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
February 13, 20251 yr Author 16 hours ago, n4gix said: They should have named the aircraft "Noboom!" I rather like "Boomless-Boom-Machine. Or BBM.
February 15, 20251 yr Moderator Okay, I should know better than to get in a contest of wits with the World Champion word smith. 🫠 Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
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