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Tech: Fortune.com:One key hur­dle involves reduc­ing the noise pro­duced by a sonic boom. “Lured by what could be a multibillion-dollar mar­ket and goosed by money from the Pen­ta­gon and NASA, plane­mak­ers like Lock­heed Mar­tin, Boe­ing, and France’s Das­sault are start­ing to get excited about design­ing a new gen­er­a­tion of hot lit­tle jets that would warp the very fab­ric of space-time while meet­ing noise and envi­ron­men­tal reg­u­la­tions. On a flight from Lon­don to Los Ange­les — stop­ping in Teter­boro, N.J., for fuel — a Mach 1.8 super­sonic jet would save almost eight hours of travel time. ”

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