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NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic jet completes maiden flight

NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) experimental supersonic aircraft took to the skies for the first time on ...

NASA X-59 Top Speed: How Fast Can The Supersonic Jet Travel?

Lockheed Martin and NASA's X-59 is a new supersonic aircraft designed to reduce the sonic pollution that comes with ...

NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Jet Takes Flight

The X-59 successfully completed its inaugural flight—a step toward developing quieter supersonic jets that could one day fly ...
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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 ...

NASA’s New Supersonic Jet Just Quietly Completed Its First Test Flight

NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet completed its first test flight on Tuesday morning, bringing ultra-fast commercial air travel one step closer to reality. Los Angeles Lakers Coach JJ Redick Relists His ...

NASA just flew a jet at 925 mph without sonic boom noise: Breakthrough could cut travel time by half

NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft has successfully completed its first flight, demonstrating the ability to break the sound ...
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Would you take a supersonic flight in an airplane? Soon you might be able to

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Ever since the Concorde retired in 2003 after only 27 years of flying, supersonic commercial flights have seemingly been a pipe dream, but new developments in science in technology ...

Could a new ‘quiet’ supersonic jet cut down your flight time? NASA just ran its first test flight for it

NASA, alongside defense and aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin, led X-59’s first test flight. X-59 took off from Lockheed ...
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Lockheed Martin testing new supersonic plane for commercial use

Lockheed Martin announced in a press release the successful completion of an initial test flight for the X-59, a new ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Sonic boom heard over Washington is a rare sound with a rich history

NORFOLK — People living in and around the nation’s capital experienced a rare, if startling, sound that has a rich history in American aviation and possibly a muted future: A sonic boom. The boom was ...
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Open Source: NC-bound startup is about to fly supersonic. We asked pilots what it’s like.

I’m Brian Gordon, tech reporter for The News & Observer, and this is Open Source, a weekly newsletter on business, labor and technology in North Carolina. Will Boom Supersonic fulfill the dream of the ...