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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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The supersonic jet designed to fly without sonic booms

The Spike S-512 was conceived to overcome the sonic boom restrictions that limited Concorde. Its elongated fuselage shape, advanced materials, and windowless digital cabin were designed to reduce ...
The MD-11's unique design choices impacted cruise and landing speeds.
In “The Islands and the Stars,” Subodhana Wijeyeratne charts how Tokyo’s space program has changed over the past century.
American Airlines and Avianca’s Caracas restart signals CCS’s slow reconnection—others may follow if conditions hold.
Benoist, the Benoist Type XIV first flew from the Florida city of St Petersburg to Tampa in January 1914 and was one of two ...
More than 120 seismometers detected sonic booms from space debris and enabled its fall to be tracked with unprecedented ...
Three F-16 pilots took down Iranian missiles and drones set for Israel in April 2024 by using their aircraft missiles and ...
The flyover is set to include two B-1s, two F-15C Eagles and a pair each of Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets and F-35C Joint Strike ...