NASA’s X-59 “frankenjet” tests supersonic flight without the sonic boom

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...
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Lockheed Martin X-59 QuessT with quiet supersonic technology

Lockheed Martin's X-59 QuessT with quiet SuperSonic Technology. The X-59 will reduce the loudness of a sonic boom. Credit: Space.com | foortage courtesy: Lockheed Martin|edited by Steve Spaleta Music: ...
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NASA’s Low-Boom X-59 Breaks The Sound Barrier

Credit: NASA NASA’s Lockheed Martin-built X-59 Quesst low-boom demonstrator conducted its first supersonic flight on June 5, reaching Mach 1.1 on an 81-min. mission from Edwards AFB, California. The ...
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NASA’s quiet supersonic X-plane gets a new name – X-59 QueSST

The U.S. Air Force is the entity responsible for assigning X-number designations to important experimental aircraft and rockets that dates back to 1947. The new experimental supersonic X-plane was ...
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2nd-ever test flight of NASA's 'quiet' X-59 supersonic jet cut short by glitch

NASA's new supersonic X-59 jet took to the skies for the second time ever on Friday (March 20), but it didn't stay up for long. The potentially revolutionary X-59 landed just nine minutes after ...