NG, NASA, DARPA announce successful sonic boom reduction

Engineers with Northrop Grumman, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have demonstrated successfully that modifying an aircraft's shape can reduce its sonic boom, officials from the company and the agencies said Sept. 3. The vehicle, an F-5E fighter with a modified nose section...

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