NASA will test quiet supersonic technology in November using a F/A-18
This November, NASA will reopen the booming debate as part of its partnership with Lockheed Martin to build a test aircraft that’ll fly with a quieter sonic boom. Though the Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator (its official designation will be the X-59 QueSST) won’t fly until 2022, November’s tests will use an existing F/A-18 to produce a…