We were hoping that one of our friends who likes to go deep sea fishing and taking people out might have gone past the 400-mile mark and might have cruised near where we would be.
But, even though NASA says the X-59 will cruise at about 925 miles per hour, it is designed to produce more of a thump than a boom spreading out the sound rather than bringing it together.
It provides us an aircraft which is incredibly good at hovering and incredibly good at cruising. That efficiency in cruise is what gets us our range and gets us our speed.
And to put that into perspective, the barrel of the Landkreuzer's cannon would have been almost four times wider than the barrel of the modern Abrams battle tank.
The Philippine authorities have also expressed a hope that China will be able to contribute coast-guard vessels to join patrol missions in the southern waters of the Philippines.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles asked for the reduction after a Cruise vehicle without a human driver collided with an emergency vehicle on Thursday.