A Supersonic Biplane that Whispers Where the Concorde Yelled

Oh MFG but it is one ugly design. The Concorde was flying sculpture, art if you will. This thing looks hideous.

Sound concept interesting to see if it goes anywhere. All I have to say is it would be one pain to land from way up in the flight deck

Article is from March 30th. Rehash of old news that was tossed 3 months back.

Lovely concept . Reminds me of the stream line body of a sting ray ! Scientists have to work out quieter and faster concepts to make the idea of supersonic travel popular . In current scenario of space tourism merely 1.5 or 2.0 mach will not suffice . I wish the guys God speed .

The Busemann biplane doesn’t work. It’s fine to look at shock waves cancelling each other out between the wings, but there are still shock waves coming off the top and bottom which would be just as intense as those from a monoplane. In fact, your lift induced drag would increase, your wave drag would increase as you now have greater surface area – and GOOD LUCK trying to implement whitcomb area rule!
The Tokyo MISORA concept appears to have so much frontal surface area it would be lucky to achieve an MMO of Mach 0.8 with any efficiency. What on earth are these aerodynamicists smoking?