Lockheed Martin To Build Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator For NASA

NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to build an X-plane to show sonic booms can be reduced to a level low enough to justify lifting the ban on civil supersonic flight over land. The Low Boom Flight Demonstrator is scheduled to fly in 2021 and will be used to gather community-response data to enable...

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