NASA teams also collected data on the volume of sound made by XB-1 on the flight route.
Boom says its analysis has found that no audible sonic boom reached the ground during the flight.
Minimizing sonic boom has been a key goal for engineers involved in the race to bring about the return of commercial supersonic air travel.
That's interesting. Could anybody explain how they actually managed to do that? I always thought sonic booms were just this quirk of physics that is more-or-less unchangable, is their method of supressing such booms just flying higher, or is there some technology advancement that allows for this?
Boom says its analysis has found that no audible sonic boom reached the ground during the flight.
Minimizing sonic boom has been a key goal for engineers involved in the race to bring about the return of commercial supersonic air travel.
That's interesting. Could anybody explain how they actually managed to do that? I always thought sonic booms were just this quirk of physics that is more-or-less unchangable, is their method of supressing such booms just flying higher, or is there some technology advancement that allows for this?