NASA Pitches In To End Overland Supersonic Flight Ban

NASA aeronautics researchers are presenting their work on how people on the ground perceive low sonic booms.

Over the years, NASA has tested technologies, such as Gulfstream’s Quiet Spike, that could facilitate low- or no-boom supersonic aircraft. Now the agency is also focusing on how people on the ground perceive low sonic booms in an effort to create a standard for the civil aviation industry that could prompt regulators to allow low-boom supersonic flight over land. (Photo: NASA)

June 17, 2014

In a move that could help pave the way for low-boom supersonic flight over land, NASA aeronautics researchers are presenting their work on how people on the ground perceive low sonic booms this week in Atlanta at an annual event held by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. “Lessening sonic booms is the most significant hurdle to [civil] supersonic flight,” said Peter Coen, head of the high-speed project in NASA’s aeronautics research mission directorate at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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