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Virgin Galactic and Boom unveil Concorde 2.0 tester to restart supersonic travel

macjules

Interesting ...

When any aircraft passes the critical mach for its rated airframe, the centre of pressure shifts rearwards. I wonder if that would be why they are using a rear engine, given that the noise for passengers at the rear of the jet is going to be pretty horrendous at Mach 2.2?

IIRC Concorde compensated by using a system to redistribute fuel along the aircraft during acceleration and deceleration.

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