NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...

On July 10, 2025, the solution became visible on the sun-drenched runways of Palmdale, California, as NASA’s X-59 QueSST test aircraft rolled under its own power for the first time.

The X-59’s first taxi test was not merely a technical run-through; it was a public show of how engineering wizardry could perhaps, at last, subdue the thundering sonic boom. Supersonic flight ...

Swift Engineering used HyperX software to remove 100 pounds from 38-foot graphite/epoxy cored nose cone for X-59 supersonic ...

NASA's X-59 is taking slow steps towards supersonic flight, beginning taxiing tests at US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The final part of Phase One development, it's the precursor to ...

The X-59, with its stretched noise and ultrathin wings, is designed to diffuse the supersonic shock waves created when the aircraft travels faster than the speed of sound. So instead of a loud sonic ...

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.

NASA’s goal with the X-59 is to reverse this trend. The agency hopes to shatter the barriers that have long restricted supersonic flight over land by minimizing the disruptive sonic boom ...

According to British Airways, a typical London to New York crossing would take a little less than three and a half hours on ...