Real Engineering. Area Rule - How To Make Planes Fly Faster. Posted: December 17, 2024 | Last updated: December 17, 2024. Why do supersonic planes have narrow fuselages over the wings?

Other supersonic aircraft in development that will be subject to the new FAA rule include Aerion Supersonic’s AS2, the S-512 from Spike Aerospace, and Lockheed Martin’s X-59 QueSST.

Built with the area rule in mind, the narrow-waisted Convair F-106 Delta Dart was the U.S. Air Force’s main interceptor from the 1960s to the 1980s. Staff Sgt. John K. McDowell Mark Mallari of ...

This rule still affects the design of many planes today, including the Boeing 747, which has its signature upper deck "hump" placed in such a way as to make the change in cross-section along the ...

Subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic perturbation theory applied to wings and bodies employing techniques of matched asymptotic expansions. Finite element, influence coefficient methods. Supersonic ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced final rules for civil supersonic test flights in the United States in a Jan. 6 press release. Supersonic flights in the U.S. are still […] ...

SUPERSONIC RULES EYED BY FAA IN INFORMATION-GATHERING EFFORT - The Federal Aviation Administration is gathering information on supersonic technology in an effort it says could lead to future rules ...

Supersonic air travel took another step closer to returning to the skies Thursday when the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a final rule ...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued new final rules to help pave the way for the re-introduction of supersonic commercial flight.