More Supersonic and High-Speed Flight News
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NASA has taken the next step toward verifying the airworthiness for its quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft with the completion of…
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NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is unique – it’s designed to fly faster than the speed of sound, but without causing…
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A climactic curtain drop reveals the newly painted red, white, and blue X-59 aircraft during its rollout ceremony on Jan.…
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NASA and Lockheed Martin formally debuted the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft Friday. Using this one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims…
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Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA’s X-59 aircraft is heading out of the hangar – preparing to embark on…
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Editor’s Note: This advisory was revised Thursday, Jan. 11, to include a new contact for reporters wishing to participate in…
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It’s almost time for NASA’s supersonic X-59 airplane to make its red, white, and blue public debut, and you’re invited…
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It was an abundant year of innovation, exploration, and inspiration for NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. NASA…
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NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft continues to make progress, most recently moving to the paint barn at Lockheed Martin Skunk…
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As NASA explores, innovates, and inspires through its work, agency inventions aimed at monitoring atmospheric pollution, studying samples from asteroids,…
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Nils Larson, aerospace engineer and test pilot for NASA’s X-59 aircraft, met up with his former student, Artemis II astronaut…
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NASA’s Quesst mission has adjusted the scheduled first flight of its X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft to 2024. A one-of-a-kind experimental…
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Early in the blockbuster movie “Top Gun: Maverick,” U.S. Navy Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell takes the secret hypersonic “Darkstar” airplane…
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NASA to Showcase Revolutionary Aero Tech at Aviation Day Event
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This series of images shows NASA’s X-59 as it sits on the flight line — the space between the hangar…
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NASA will deliver the results to U.S. and international regulators, who will consider new rules that would lift the ban…
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Before the X-59 flies, NASA researchers are getting ahead of the curve by using computational fluid dynamics to create what…
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NASA’s X-59 has undergone final installation of its lower empennage, better known as the tail assembly. NASA’s X-59 has undergone…
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In preparation for high-altitude flight tests of NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59, NASA and Lockheed Martin personnel recently underwent pressure breathing training…
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Sound never looked so good! Using a special handheld camera, researchers at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California,…
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NASA researchers recently conducted a series of flights to record the sound of jet engines with the goal of using…
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The engine that will power NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 in flight is installed, marking a major milestone in the experimental…
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NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 now has the engine that will power it in flight. The installation of the F414-GE-100 engine…
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Seventy-five years ago, a sonic boom thundered for the first time over the high desert of California. On the ground…
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Before NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft can take to the skies, plenty of testing needs to happen to ensure a…
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Introducing Quesst. Evoking the experimental nature of flight testing and the spirit of aeronautical exploration, Quesst is what NASA is…
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The X-59, NASA’s quiet supersonic experimental aircraft, has arrived back at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, following…
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Not often that a second chance comes along, but the upcoming launch of the Air Force’s Office of Scientific Research…
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A faster-than-sound airplane generates sonic thumps so quiet that people on the ground might not hear anything at all. Not…
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It appears the road to enabling a future that includes convenient commercial supersonic air travel over land demands a substantial…