NASA Relearning Lost X-plane Skills With Low-Boom Demo

• Bids to build NASA’s Low Boom Flight Demonstration X-plane submitted in September
• Single-seat, single-engine demonstrator scheduled to begin flight testing in fiscal 2021
• Designed to produce a reduced sonic boom of 70-75 PLdB through airframe shaping
• Goal is community response data to support lifting ban on supersonic flight overland

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