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Collier Aerospace’s HyperX Software Enhanced Nose Cone of Swift’s X-59 Aircraft
Collier Aerospace supplied HyperX computer-aided engineering software to Swift Engineering for the structural sizing, ...
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What Causes A Sonic Boom?
When the object breaks the sound barrier, this pressure wave cascades outward in a cone shape, forming a shock wave. The abrupt pressure change creates the characteristic sonic boom heard on the ...
What is a sonic boom? Here's what causes massively loud sounds during some rocket launches
BOOM! What was the earth-shaking, jolt-you-awake, set-off-the-car-alarm sound? Oh right, a rocket launch. But why are some ...
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Shock Treatment
This cone-shaped shock wave wouldn't be a problem ... only one—to significantly ameliorate the sonic boom. In 1971, building on work done in the 1960s by NASA's Ed McLean and Harry Carlson ...
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X-59 aircraft designed to quiet sonic booms optimised thanks to Collier Aerospace’s design & analysis software
This experimental aircraft from Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® is part of the Quesst (Quiet Supersonic Technology) mission of U ...
Boom XB-1 Achieves Supersonic Flight—First Time Since Concorde In 2003
Today a civil test airliner, Boom Technology’s XB-1, broke the sound barrier for the first time in two decades.
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Collier Aerospace enables Swift Engineering to optimize X-59 nose cone
Design & analysis software used for structural sizing, analysis, and test validation of 35ft structure.