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NASA's X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet rolls out for its 1st test drive (video)
NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...
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NASA’s X-59: A Supersonic Jet Designed for a Quiet Future
The Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft is America's newest experimental plane. A time-lapse video released by NASA in early ...
NASA's X-59 moves under its own power
NASA announced a successful test of its X-59 aircraft at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif., that could lead to ...
NASA’s X-59 Moves Closer to First Flight with Advanced Taxi Tests and Augmented Vision
NASA’s X-59, a 99-foot experimental aircraft developed with Lockheed Martin, has entered the taxi test phase at California’s ...
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NASA's X-59 rolls closer to supersonic flight – slowly
NASA's X-59 is taking slow steps towards supersonic flight, beginning taxiing tests at US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, ...
FLYING Magazine on MSN9d
NASA’s Quiet Supersonic X-59 Begins Taxi Tests Ahead of First Flight
The experimental aircraft has begun a series of low-speed taxi tests at contractor Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN5d
How NASA’s X-59 Is Quietly Rewriting the Rules of Supersonic Flight
What is required to transform the thunderous crack of a sonic boom into a mere whisper across the sky? On July 10, 2025, the solution became visible on the sun-drenched runways of Palmdale, California ...
NASA’s supersonic X-59 jet that could slash NYC-London flight time in half taxis closer to take off
The X-59 jet, dubbed the “son of Concorde,” is one step closer to takeoff after the experimental aircraft taxied on a ...
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NASA Rehearses How To Measure X-59's Noise Levels
NASA test pilot Nils Larson walks around an F-15B research aircraft for a rehearsal flight supporting the agency's Quesst ...
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NASA performs first taxi tests of experimental X-59 supersonic demonstrator
NASA has completed the first taxi tests of its experimental X-59 supersonic demonstrator, which aims to conduct low sonic ...
Forget jet lag: NASA’s X-59 could get you from New York to London in three hours and you won't even feel it
NASAs experimental X-59 supersonic jet has completed low-speed taxi tests in California, inching closer to its maiden flight. Developed under the Quesst mission, the aircraft is designed to fly faster ...
The National Interest on MSN13d
NASA’s X-59 QueSST Aircraft Could Bring Back Commercial Supersonic Flight
NASA plans to conduct community overflights beginning this year, flying the X-59 over select American cities to collect public feedback on the “sonic thump.” ...