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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 ...
The X-59 successfully completed its inaugural flight—a step toward developing quieter supersonic jets that could one day fly customers more than twice as fast as commercial airliners.
Nearly a decade after NASA partnered with Lockheed Martin to build the X-59, the supersonic jet has completed its first ...
X-59 is designed to usher in a new era of air travel with its quiet supersonic technology. NASA’s X-59 aircraft completed its ...
After years in development, NASA's supersonic jet dubbed 'Son of Concorde' has successfully completed its first test flight.
The plane took off from Skunk Works' facility in Palmdale, Calif., at 8:14 am PT October 28 and made a 1-hour, 7-minute ...
Concorde was the result of a joint program between France's Sud Aviation and the United Kingdom's British Aircraft ...
In partnership with NASA, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works has executed the first test flight of the X-59 quiet supersonic ...
Lockheed Martin's revolutionary X-59 supersonic jet completes first test flight, designed to break sound barrier with quiet 'thump' instead of sonic boom.
In a major milestone in the return of supersonic travel for passengers, NASA's experimental aircraft is making its maiden flight on Tuesday (October 28). The X-59 QueSST (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) ...
Spaceflight induces motion sickness due to discrepancies between brain expectations and actual gravitational experiences.
If you boil it down to the basic facts, the era of commercial supersonic flight was a European phenomenon. Concorde, its ...
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