TITUSVILLE, Fla. — In the next few days, a NASA F-18 jet will be flying over the Space Coast as the agency works on advancing supersonic flight.
The sonic booms associated with the research are expected to remain directly over the Kennedy Space Center Monday, but people in other areas will still be able to hear them, officials said.
“We’re used to (sonic booms) from the space shuttle era,” Titusville resident Ozzie Osband said. “Thirty years of spacecraft returning to earth over our airspace, what can I say?"
Researchers are going to do their best to keep residential areas relatively free of the worst of the sound, NASA spokesman Ed Haering said.
“There might be one or two loud booms that hit residential areas,” he said. “But we’re trying to keep it quiet. You might hear an occasional rumble, like a distant thunder kind of sound.”
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No matter how much officials try to let the public know what to expect, there will always be people “who don’t get the word and will call 911,” Osband said. “Then 911 will remind them, don’t worry.”
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