Although all are adhered to travelling through the air but its shortcomings are that it would still take hours to fly from United States to Nigeria. But as the case with NASA supersonic airplanes, these planes which are however noisier and are hardly seen flying in human populated environment making them overseas planes.
Its no more new in the NASA tech garden that its building its new sensor that would help rebuild a quieter supersonic aircraft. The Eagle Aero Probe measures air pressure changes right near where they occur during a sonic boom and this would nearly give an instantaneous sense of what’s happening.
There were previous sensors that were about 15 feet away in the radar dome which isn’t totally helpful when there is need for a real time data to measure a shockwave.
Although it might take few period before the probe can begin its fullness in operation but as of now, the NASA is so focuses in testing aboard its own F-15 Eagle Aircraft. As the case may be, the invention can be very useful for studying the aerodynamics of new aircraft and thus reducing the annoying noises of their Sonic Booms.
Eventually, you could see a wide range of supersonic aircraft that are relatively silent, including passenger jets — your New York-to-LA flight wouldn’t have to chew up a large part of the day.