NASA's new supersonic jet passes 1st test flight
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X-59 Debut Could Launch New Era for Commercial Aviation
The X-59 is the cornerstone of NASA’s Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QUESST) program, which launched in 2016. At the time, the space agency hoped to fly it by 2020. But though that timeline has faced delays, Tuesday’s sortie represents a major step forward.
The airline will be able to fly from New York to London, for example, in three hours 40 minutes, so New York to Palma, for example, would not take much longer.
After the Space Race there was the supersonic race, as three countries vied to build the first passenger supersonic airliner
Boom Supersonic took a step toward its passenger jet ambitions Friday by completing the first flight of its demonstrator plane, called XB-1, at the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. The company said the needle-nosed XB-1 “met all its test objectives ...
President Trump signed an executive order Friday that could clear the skies for Boom Supersonic’s Overture, the sleek craft being designed and tested at Centennial Airport that could become the world’s first faster-than-sound jetliner since the ...
Boom Supersonic, the Colorado startup that aims to assemble passenger jets in North Carolina, celebrated President Donald Trump’s executive order Friday ending a 52-year-old ban on overland civilian supersonic flight. “Legalizing supersonic flight ...