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Stifling sonic booms

FEB 12, 2009
Physics Today
Wired : NASA researchers are on a quest to take the boom out of sonic booms, a development that could lead to a new generation of supersonic aircraft and perhaps even usher in a new era of supersonic passenger flight.
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