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

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, California) (via Knight-Ridder/TribuneBusiness News) | Date: August 29, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Jim Skeen

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 quietly.

"Based on those studies, an experimental airc...

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