NASA hitches ride on Japan’s quiet supersonic demonstrator

QUIET BOOM: NASA is continuing its pursuit of a next-generation quiet supersonic aircraft by conducting joint research on sonic boom modeling with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Japan is planning to fly the Silent Supersonic Technology Demonstrator (S³TD, or “S-Cube”) around 2012 to...

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