NASA’s New Supersonic Jet: Minimizes the Explosive Sonic BOOM Sound to that of closing a Car Door

NASA’s experimental supersonic aircraft,?the X-59 QueSST?,?has moved a step closer to its first flight.?"The "quiet” supersonic X-59 is now on the flight line,?the area between the hangar and runway,?according to images released by NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration .?Its goal is to be able to fly supersonic,?or faster than Mach 1,?while reducing the sonic booms that defined previous supersonic aircraft like the Concorde,?to a quiet thump.?NASA plans to fly the aircraft over communities to gather responses from people on the ground about the sounds generated during supersonic flight.

The long-term goal is to gauge public response and present that data to regulators,?possibly opening the way to commercial supersonic flight for aircraft like Boom’s Overture,?which claims its design will mitigate sonic booms.?The US government banned supersonic flight for all civilian aircraft over land in 1973.?" "We’re definitely ready to write a new chapter in the history of supersonic flight,?making air travel over land twice as fast,?but in a way that is safe,?sustainable,?and so much quieter than before.?The rendering shows the aircraft flying over land,?emitting thuds rather than supersonic booms.

If the X-59 is #successful,?and its soft thump convinces regulators to at least modify the ban on supersonic aircraft,?the result could be a new generation of supersonic aircraft,?which Boom and others are now attempting to build.

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Engineers shaped the aircraft to feature a sleek design that reduces drag by sweeping back its wings and eliminating the cockpit that sticks up at the front of the plane.

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