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NASA To Start Quiet Boom Flights over Galveston in Fall
To prepare for community overflights under its silent supersonic aircraft test program with the X-59 starting in 2023, NASA will fly an F/A-18 as it breaks through the speed of sound over Galveston, Texas, beginning in November. NASA’s F/A-18 testbed will be flown using a “quiet supersonic dive maneuver” to “aim quiet sonic thumps at a specific area,” a procedure that the agency first tested in 2011 over Edwards Air Force Base. (www.ainonline.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I wonder how they decide where to do the tests. They were doing this offshore of NASA Kennedy last year.
Good to get some baseline hatred started before everyday booms start.
Oh yay ! More pollution...my fear is that by the time we've figured out how to reverse the damage, it will be irreversible. It's mind boggling how we stumble along killing this incredibly glorious place we call home.
And as an aside, I remember those tests in the 60s...sonic booms at 3:00 each afternoon. Yoiks. Even knowing it was coming, it'd shake you to the core.
And as an aside, I remember those tests in the 60s...sonic booms at 3:00 each afternoon. Yoiks. Even knowing it was coming, it'd shake you to the core.
This was the subject of a similar squawk last month. The accompanying video seemed to indicate that they had indeed been able to muffle booms significantly.
https://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/7_days/popular_new/68241/NASA_will_publicly_test_quiet_supersonic_technology_in_November
https://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/7_days/popular_new/68241/NASA_will_publicly_test_quiet_supersonic_technology_in_November
Hopefully, silent boom will not be noticeable! it would be a move forward if we can get fleets of concord speed or faster in the air sooner than later.
This is going to be a waste of money. The sound barrier is the sound barrier regardless how much NASA wants to sugar coat it. One day in Sept.´67 yours truly was walking to classes at The San Luis Obispo Polytechnic College (now University) in California when two "explosions" shook the h... out of me. Two F-4s were running tests to see how people would react to sonic booms. The rest is history. There ain't and won´t be mufflers for that.