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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Ever since the Concorde retired in 2003 after only 27 years of flying, supersonic commercial ... the X-59 and similar aircraft could fly over land if quiet enough.

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 ...