Uploaded October 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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NASA’s Low Boom Flight Demonstration experimental airplane aims to make supersonic passenger jet travel over land a real possibility by reducing the disruptive sonic boom sound associated with supersonic flight.

Video credit: NASA/Ames Research Center

More info: nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-completes-milestone-toward-quieter-supersonic-x-plane

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