Bizjet makers doing their part to quiet Machbusting flight
“Everybody talks about the weather,” Mark Twain once famously quipped, “but nobody ever does anything about it.”

The sound barrier amounts to ro

“Everybody talks about the weather,” Mark Twain once famously quipped, “but nobody ever does anything about it.”

The sound barrier amounts to roughly the same thing. Not the sound barrier that was once thought an insurmountable obstruction, the one that caused piston-driven airplanes to shed wings and props, the hotly pursued goal of Mach-plus flight. No, almost as soon as Chuck Yeager’s bulbous little Bell X-1 poked its nose through the speed of sound, another problem presented itself–the sound of speed.