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It's been 70 years since Chuck Yeager broke the

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sound barrier in an aircraft on October 14, 1947.

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It's been 14 years since the Concorde made

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its final flight on October 24, 2003.

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NASA recently announced the Low-Boom

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Flight Demonstrator aircraft that could bring

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supersonic travel back to the public.

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Slated for flight tests in the 2020's,

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the design has been tested extensively

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in wind tunnels & computer simulations.

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NASA's Ames Research Center conducted many

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of the studies to reduce the sonic "boom"

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to a sonic "thump".

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Ames has a legacy of testing aircraft at

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supersonic speeds that began even before 1947.

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Ames research could play a key role in making