Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella
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first heard May 2026
last heard 4d ago
Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Not just the people right under the flight path but even extended outwards as well.
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So that's a sonic boom and that's supersonic flight and what happens.
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So to turn the sonic boom into a sonic thump, the engineers are in essence sculpting and shaping the downward part of that cone of shockwaves, right?
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So they don't really care about the upward part of the cone.
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It's all about the downward part.
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That's what people are going to hear.
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So they're kind of sculpting it into smaller, gentler shockwaves, more spread out in time and space.
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They say that when you eventually hear it on the ground, it should have the volume of a car door slamming a little bit of distance away from you.
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Or sometimes they liken it to the rumbling of distant thunder, a lot more tolerable than the classic sonic boom that we hear today.
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So to do this, the nose of the plane has to be really long.
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It looks kind of weird.
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It's so long.
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They refer to the plane as a swordfish.
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It really does look like a swordfish.
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But the end isn't pointed though.
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It needs to be this chisel shape to effectively change the shape of the shockwave.
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And the entire body of the plane also is kind of designed to do this.
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So this test happened this past October 2025.
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It went very well.
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It passed all the tests.
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