Supersonic air travel disappeared with the end of the former-Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic transport and ... the first flight, the aircraft will conduct its first quiet supersonic flight ...

Vid The aircraft NASA hopes will usher in a new generation of transport that's supersonic but also relatively quiet has fired up its engines for the first time as a test.… The X-59 Quiet ...

Starting on Oct. 30, engineers with NASA's X-59 Quesst program (Quiet SuperSonic ... validate that supersonic flight is possible without creating deafening sonic booms; if aircraft can be designed ...

Not long is left now until American space agency NASA sends a brand-new research aircraft called X-59 into the sky. Part of the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) program, it's a piece of ...

Can an aircraft travel supersonically ... precluding commercial supersonic air travel over land in the United States. “The sonic thump of the X-59 is as quiet as this airplane can get ...

Supersonic passenger jet startup says quiet supersonic flight within reach ... the agency's prime contractor on the supersonic aircraft project, unveiled their X-59 in Palmdale, California.

Why supersonic passenger flight didn’t take off Concorde was designed in the 1960s when it seemed like supersonic passenger transport ... aims to be a “quiet” supersonic aircraft with ...

Boom’s demonstrator aircraft, XB-1, broke the sound barrier three times without generating a sonic boom that reached the ground, demonstrating that quiet supersonic travel is possible," the ...

NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Technology (Quesst) project is at the forefront of innovation. The space agency is currently testing its X-59 aircraft, which was built by Lockheed Martin. The aircraft ...

“Although the founders and team still believe in the need/desire for quiet supersonic ... year when it flew its first aircraft, a subscale variant of its supersonic UAV called EX-3M Trident ...

A bill proposed in 2017 never got traction. NASA has also been working on “quiet” supersonic aircraft as part of its Low-Boom Flight Demonstration project. Central to that programme has been ...