By Andrew O’Reilly, Fox News
NASA and Lockheed Martin are developing a new, experimental supersonic aircraft that could make it possible to fly from New York City to London in just under three hours.
The plane, dubbed the Low Boom Flight Demonstrator, has spurred hopes that supersonic travel will once again be available to commercial passengers. But there will be one major difference between the experimental plane under development and the current batch of supersonic aircraft in the skies today.
Instead of the ear-splitting sonic boom that occurs when planes break the sound barrier, developers say the Low Boom Flight Demonstrator – also known as the X-plane – will make a sound only about as loud as a car door closing by utilizing a specific wing shape.
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