Community Response to Low-Amplitude Sonic Boom Testing

NASA's Commercial Supersonic Technology Project is constructing a Low Boom Flight Demonstration (“LBFD”) Quiet Supersonic Transport (“QueSST”) experimental aircraft (“X-plane”). The X-plane supports NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate’s Mega-Driver 1: Global growth in demand for high-speed mobility and Strategic Thrust 2: Innovation in Commercial Supersonic Aircraft (NASA Aeronautics Strategic Implementation Plan, March 2017). Sonic booms created by the new X-plane are expected to be of lower amplitude, and hence, considerably less annoying than those of prior commercial supersonic aircraft. Flight testing of the LBFD aircraft is intended 1) to demonstrate and validate the technology necessary for civil supersonic flight that creates low-amplitude sonic booms, and 2) to determine community response to sonic booms of lesser loudness.

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