{"id":3165,"date":"2018-12-05T12:58:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T18:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2018-12-05T12:58:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T18:58:05","slug":"will-supersonic-commercial-air-travel-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=3165","title":{"rendered":"Will Supersonic Commercial Air Travel Return?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Earlier this year, NASA awarded $250,000 to Lockheed Martin to create an aircraft capable of silently breaking the sound barrier (\u201cLow-Boom flight program\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">On Nov. 16, the company\u00a0<span class=\"quote down bgQuote\" data-channel=\"\/quotes\/zigman\/150087\/composite\" data-bgformat=\"\"><a class=\"qt-chip trackable\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/investing\/stock\/lmt?mod=MW_story_quote\" data-fancyid=\"XNYSStockLMT\" data-track-mod=\"MW_story_quote\">LMT,\u00a0<span class=\"bgPercentChange\">-3.39%<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 started production of the experimental QueSST (Quiet SuperSonic Transport) aircraft. This elegant vehicle can cruise at Mach 1.42 (1,510 km\/h or 940 mph) and is capable of reaching 55,000 feet (16,800 meters), creating a low 75 Perceived Level decibel (PLdB) thump. This means that when the airplane breaks the sound barrier, it creates noise equivalent to the sound of slamming the car door.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Click the link below for the full story!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/supersonic-commercial-air-travel-may-return-without-all-the-noise-2018-12-05?siteid=yhoof2&amp;yptr=yahoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will Supersonic Commercial Air Travel Return?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3166\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/X59-QueSST-300x164.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"754\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/X59-QueSST-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/X59-QueSST-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/X59-QueSST-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/X59-QueSST.png 1484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Image from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lockheedmartin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.lockheedmartin.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, NASA awarded $250,000 to Lockheed Martin to create an aircraft capable of silently breaking the sound barrier (\u201cLow-Boom flight program\u201d). On Nov. 16, the company\u00a0LMT,\u00a0-3.39%\u00a0\u00a0 started production of the experimental QueSST (Quiet SuperSonic Transport) aircraft. This elegant vehicle can cruise at Mach 1.42 (1,510 km\/h or 940 mph) and is capable of reaching 55,000 feet (16,800 meters), creating a low 75 Perceived Level decibel (PLdB) thump. This means that when the airplane breaks the sound barrier, it creates noise equivalent to the sound of slamming the car door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,89,1397,868,1103],"tags":[2650,539,464,2651,2642,508,1563,510,2647,660,589,2436,78,1923,1100,709,2648,2649,2640,2643,2641,509,1691,1916,2644,2645,2646],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-stock-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-aerospatiale","tag-air","tag-aircraft","tag-bac","tag-barrier","tag-boom","tag-commercial","tag-concorde","tag-experimental","tag-flight","tag-jet","tag-lmt","tag-lockheed","tag-low","tag-martin","tag-nasa","tag-quesst","tag-quiet","tag-return","tag-skunk","tag-sound","tag-supersonic","tag-transport","tag-travel","tag-works","tag-x-plane","tag-xplane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3168,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions\/3168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}