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Avenging the Concorde: Inside NASA’s Quest to Break the Sound Barrier and Hush the Sonic Boom

Eric Adams
03 February 2025
10 min
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NASA's X-59, a part of the Quesst mission, aims to develop an aerodynamic design to mute sonic booms to barely perceptible thumps. If successful, it could revolutionize commercial aviation, enabling faster-than-sound flight over land.
READ: Avenging the Concorde: Inside NASA’s Quest to Break the Sound Barrier and Hush the Sonic Boom

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