D.C. and Virginia residents frustrated for years by the thundering noise of airliners zooming overhead from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport may be in for some relief soon.

Airliners headed for the airport will now have better GPS systems to help them fly directly over the Potomac River, instead of navigating by sight, which often caused them to veer off course above homes in McLean and the Palisades neighborhood of D.C.

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