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NASA Approves Quiet Supersonic Jet Design

NASA and Lockheed Martin have teamed up to develop Quiet Supersonic Technology, or QueSST, to eliminate sonic booms. NASA
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Key Takeaways:

NASA says a new quiet supersonic passenger jet it has been designing alongside Lockheed Martin would create a soft “thump” heard on the ground rather than the bone-rattling sonic boom that led to the original U.S. prohibition on supersonic flight over land back in the early 1970s.

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