NASA and Lockheed Martin introduced the X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft on January 12, 2024, presenting it as a research plane ...
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Inside NASA’s quiet supersonic experiment

For decades, supersonic flight has meant one thing — a thunderous sonic boom that limits where aircraft can fly. The X-59 was built to challenge that reality.
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CLEVELAND — The X-59 is a one-of-a-kind aircraft. And that same can be said about its test pilot, Nils Larson. "Flying the airplane is exciting, but that engineering is really exciting as well,” said ...
NASA has bolstered its flight research capabilities with the addition of two retired F-15 fighter jets from the U.S. Air Force to support testing of its new X-59 “quiet” supersonic aircraft. The X-59 ...
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NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft, part of the Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QUESST) program, aims to reduce sonic booms to quieter "sonic thumps" to enable supersonic flight over land. Two retired U.S ...
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