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After the Concord was built, NASA did some research into reducing sonic booms (the Shaped Sonic Boom Experiment) which showed you could modify the fuselage to r
by grinich 9y ago
After the Concord was built, NASA did some research into reducing sonic booms (the Shaped Sonic Boom Experiment) which showed you could modify the fuselage to reduce the noise shock by about 30%. This would have brought the Concord below the acceptable noise threshold. Unfortunately it was never built-out commercially and we now have legislation banning supersonic flight over land.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_Sonic_Boom_Demonstration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_Sonic_Boom_Demonstratio...
- cheeko1234 9y agoThat's the goal of the current quesst program. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-begins-work-to-build-a-quieter-supersonic-passenger-jet https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-begins-work-to-build...