Artist’s conception of the X-59 QueSST, featuring an elongated fuselage that is designed to reduce sonic booms. Sonic booms proved to be a bust for commercial supersonic aircraft, which were ...

Unveiling the Future of Supersonic Travel! NASA and Lockheed Martin join forces to create the game-changing X-59 Quesst, designed to revolutionize supersonic airline travel. Discover the ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin have been working on the X-59 for a while. It was developed under NASA's Quesst (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) program. The aircraft is designed to hit supersonic speeds ...

The X-59 aims to change that. The Quesst mission seeks to reduce "the loudness of a sonic boom reaching the ground to that of a gentle thump, if it is heard at all," the agency said. World travel ...

The X-59 QueSST (a rather loose acronym for “Quiet Supersonic Transport”) is something of a return to the classic X-Planes of the past; a pure research vehicle that has no commercial or ...