For now, NASA will continue testing the quiet sonic booms generated by the F/A-18's daredevil maneuver through a series of flights scheduled for November over Galveston, Texas. During those tests, the agency is planning to have volunteers on the ground let them know what they hear.
The data NASA collects might help to convince the U.S. government to lift its ban on supersonic air travel over land. If the government does lift the ban on supersonic travel over land as a result of NASA’s “quiet” technology, we could see commercial supersonic jets take flight, cutting travel times between destinations without disrupting the people still Earth-bound.