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Boom's aircraft don't make as loud a sonic boom as Concorde. Both NASA and Boom will conduct tests of this design in the mid 2020s to measure the sound at ground level in various conditions.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/features/how-nasa-wil...




Are you saying NASA/Lockheed Martin's X-59 is related to Boom? Or that Boom have similar goals?


NASA's flight will validate and improve the computer models that Boom is using to design their plans.


Is this a stated plan of Boom's (in particular, with regard to noise), or speculation?

Boom's page on why their aircraft won't have the same fate as the Concorde focuses purely on (fuel and route) economics, not noise [1].

1: https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/post/will-boom-supersonics-...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R43gKMWAPco


This video doesn't mention sonic booms, nor NASA, at any point.




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