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  1. Mondog1

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    "Supersonic plane to come" stories run about as often -- and are about as true -- as breaking news on either DB Cooper or Amelia Earhart.

    :)

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  3. Mondog1

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    Yet another article, from Bloomberg:

    “We couldn’t have made the engine itself—it would have melted down into slag if we had tried to produce it five years ago,” O’Banion said. “But now we can digitally print that engine with an incredibly sophisticated cooling system integral into the material of the engine itself, and have that engine survive for multiple firings for routine operation.” The aircraft is also agile at hypersonic speeds, with reliable engine starts, he said. A half-decade before, he added, developers “could not have even built it even if we conceived of it.”

    He is speaking in the past tense!

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-16/america-s-fastest-spy-plane-may-be-back-and-hypersonic
     
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    Google X-51 to see how the technology has progressed. That was few years ago, before the 3D printing was really mature.
     
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    They will release a mid engine Corvette. I guess with that anything else is possible.
     

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