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Podcast: This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
Episode: This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-5-19-23: Boom! The Return of Supersonic Commercial Flight
Description: Imagine being able to fly to LA for lunch, have a business meeting, and then be back home in time for dinner.
It could happen, if a research project currently underway at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is successful in demonstrating that a new, high tech airplane can break the sound barrier without causing the noisy and destructive sonic booms that helped end commercial supersonic air travel in 2003.
Listen now to our conversation with the Deputy Project Manager for the commercial supersonic technology project at NASA Glenn, Peggy Cornell, and with Walsh University President, Dr. Tim Collins.
Cornell's background i...