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

The X-59 is the centerpiece of NASA's Quesst mission, which aims to demonstrate quiet supersonic flight by reducing the loud ...

The X-59’s shape is designed to prevent the shockwaves from coalescing together,” said NASA engineer Craig Nickol, outlining the fundamentals of a mission set to turn on its head a half-century of ...

NASA's X-59 is taking slow steps towards supersonic flight, beginning taxiing tests at US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, ...

More NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft continues to make progress toward its first flight with a new successful round of testing. The X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet was designed to break the sound ...

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

NASA’s supersonic “Son of Concorde” plane which will halve the travel time between London and New York is zooming ever closer ...

For the first time, NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 is moving under its own power. The experimental aircraft has begun a series of low-speed taxi tests at contractor Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works ...

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NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is seen during its “aluminum bird” systems testing, verifying how its systems work together, respond to pilot inputs and handle injected failures.

The X-59 is the result of the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) program that started a decade ago. It is a tool that utilizes a series of new and innovative design ideas and technologies ...

The X-59 is the result of the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) program that started a decade ago. It is a tool that utilizes a series of new and innovative design ideas and technologies ...