Planes' Redesign Could Mean Less Bang for Sonic Booms, Northrop Grumman Says.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: August 29, 2003 | Copyright information

By Jim Skeen, Daily News, Los Angeles Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 29--EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.--The sonic boom, that wall-shaking, heart-stopping proclamation of man's victory over the sound barrier, could be reduced to a mere boomlet by redesigning supersonic aircraft.

That was the conclusion announced Thursday by Northrop Grumman, which spent $7 million researching technologies that would make future supersonic aircraft fly more ...uietly.

"Based on those studies, an experimental aircraft could eventually be built that will produce a ...

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