Hosted on MSN

How NASA’s X-59 Is Quietly Rewriting the Rules of Supersonic Flight

What is required to transform the thunderous crack of a sonic boom into a mere whisper across the sky? On July 10, 2025, the solution became visible on the sun-drenched runways of Palmdale, California ...
KGUN 9

NASA unveils its X-59 quiet supersonic jet

If you're a fan of high-tech aircraft, you're going to love this! A much-awaited unveiling and a promise to revolutionize commercial aviation. “Today we are witnessing history,” said John Clark, ...
Space on MSN

NASA to monitor how the X59 supersonic plane sounds

NASA will use 30 ground recording stations to monitor the sound produced by the X-59 QueSST experimental aircraft. Learn more ...
autoevolution

Boeing Takes a Half-Plane Into NASA Wind Tunnel to Test Longer and Thinner Wing Design

American space agency NASA and aircraft maker Boeing have been researching longer and thinner wing designs, they are now ...
Yahoo

NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Soars In First Flight Highlights

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft conducted its historic first-ever flight. See the flight highlights here. Credit: NASA Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints appoints 14 men to council, ...
Flightglobal

NASA progresses X-59 quiet supersonic demonstrator towards planned first flight before year-end

Though 2025 is ticking away, NASA still aims to complete the first flight this year of its X-59 Quesst quiet-supersonic demonstrator, saying the team is progressing into high-speed taxi tests and ...
Aviation Week

NASA X-59 Supersonic Research Aircraft Begins Taxi Tests

NASA and Lockheed Martin have begun initial taxi tests of the X-59 Quesst quiet supersonic research aircraft, marking another step toward its long-anticipated first flight. The aircraft moved under ...
Flightglobal

NASA and Lockheed Martin achieve first flight of X-59 quiet supersonic demonstrator

NASA and partner Lockheed Martin have made good on their plan to have the X-59 supersonic demonstrator airborne before year-end. The jet, commissioned by NASA to test design features intended to ...
autoevolution

Skunk Works' Experimental Supersonic Aircraft Flies for the First Time in California

It was back in 2016 when American space agency NASA kicked off a program called the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) and now, nine years later, we have the first tangible results of this effort: ...
Digital Trends

Lockheed Martin’s X-59 completes first supersonic flight minus the sonic boom

What Happened: You know that earsplitting, window-rattling BOOM that planes make when they break the sound barrier? The one that got them banned from flying over land? Well, it might be a thing of the ...
Aviation Week

NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Research Aircraft Makes First Flight

NASA began flight tests of its needle-nosed X-59 Quesst quiet supersonic research aircraft with a 1 hr. 7 min. initial sortie from Palmdale, California, to the nearby Edwards AFB on Oct. 28. Flown by ...