NASA's X-59 Supersonic Jet Broke The Sound Barrier On Its First Test Flight

A collaboration between NASA and Lockheed Martin has produced the Quesst, a supersonic aircraft that produces sonic "thumps" ...

Experimental 'Quiet' Supersonic Prototype Achieves First Flight

Commercial supersonic travel just got one step closer to reality, as Lockheed Martin has just made its first successful flight with the X-59 prototype for NASA's Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) ...

NASA test flight seeks to help bring commercial supersonic travel back

The jet, built by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, took off from US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. Flown by Nils ...

Supersonic travel could return – without the boom – as NASA tests X-59 jet

NASA's experimental X-59 supersonic jet recently completed its first test flight after years of development and delays. Aeronautical engineers at Lockheed Martin designed the aircraft to ...

American ideals, his family's story and 'fast planes' led this Polk native to the Navy

Zach Drum of Winter Haven says his family's story led him to serve. "Fast planes and getting to go to sea" led him to the Naval Academy.
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NASA will fly F-15s through supersonic shock waves behind its experimental X-57 jet

NASA has developed special probes that will fly aboard F-15B jets trailing closely behind its X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet in ...
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NASA X-59 Top Speed: How Fast Can The Supersonic Jet Travel?

NASA hopes to design an aircraft capable of supersonic flight over land with acceptable noise ... It's powered by a General Electric F414 engine, the same one used in the F/A-18 Super Hornet, which ...