In a lot of ways, I’ve worked on X-59 ever since I got to NASA. I got to NASA in 2007 when I retired out of the Air Force, and I have always been working on sonic boom research ever since I came to NASA. And a lot of that was looking at how the sound moves through the atmosphere. We had airplanes before like the Concorde that went supersonic. And they were only allowed to go supersonic over the water. But once they got to land, they had to slow down and they weren’t as efficient there because they were designed to be going fast. Plus, you still wanted to get there fast.

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Lori and her family had never really doubted it. Rich, after all, was the intense fitness freak who was always cool in a crisis, and he had a deep, engrained sense of right and wrong.

I don’t know of any other instance, where we have built an X-plane and gone out to do a test such as this, getting community response data. HOST PADI BOYD: However, once planes reach a certain speed, they cause what’s called a sonic boom: a burst of energy that can be heard…and felt… by the people below.Also, the chess set is so small and nowhere to even store all the accessories for this. It should have came with a bag to put it in. I think for how big it is, it's not our favorite for what you can actually do with this.

HOST PADI BOYD: The long and thin design of the X-59 helps disperse the sound waves that add up to the sonic boom. She glowered during the ceremony, cringed at the way her grief was on public display. She was icy toward other relatives of passengers and crew, by her own admission.Hi, I’m Nils Larson. I’m a research test pilot at Armstrong Flight Research Center. I’ve been a test pilot for…ooh… more than most people have been alive, probably. HOST PADI BOYD: One of the longest-running commercial planes to fly at supersonic speeds was called the Concorde. According to British Airways, it flew more than 2.5 million passengers from 1976 to 2003. A still in-credit variant without the URL appears on some shows. Discovery Kids (Latin America) airings of The Dog & Pony Show don't show the logo at all. HOST PADI BOYD: If you liked this episode, please let us know by leaving us a review, tweeting about the show @NASA, and sharing NASA’s Curious Universe with a friend.