NASA Looks To Noise-Reducing Designs Beyond Hybrid Wing-Body

Credit: NASA Langley Research Center Photos
A version of this article appears in the September 22 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. More than a decade ago, NASA calculated that it should be possible to reduce an airliner’s noise footprint 80% by 2025, but only by abandoning the traditional tube-and-wing configuration. Today the...

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