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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]
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.
WHY???????????????
Read the article.
So we can send supersonic drones in-country to kill bad guys without waking the neighbors.
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
Good to get some baseline hatred started before everyday booms start.