"This reduces risk and ensures we're not learning about problems in the air." NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft continues to make progress toward its first flight with a new successful round of ...

China’s Comac is aiming to redefine supersonic travel with its C949 airliner, a 1.6-Mach design promising greater range and ...

The X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet was designed to break the sound barrier without producing the thunderous sonic booms that typically accompany supersonic flight. And based on the results of the ...

The first details of C949, a supersonic airliner project, have been quietly unveiled by Chinese state-owned aerospace giant Comac, signalling its ambitions to dominate the skies with the radical new ...

N ASA’s X-59 supersonic jet, developed in collaboration with Lockheed Martin’s renowned Skunk Works division, is poised to redefine the future of high-speed air travel.Part of NASA’s Quesst ...

Boom Supersonic built a supersonic plane for a fraction of the cost of NASA's X-59. Now all that's left to do is build it ...

NASA’s X-59, part of the Quiet SuperSonic Technology (Quesst) programme, has successfully completed afterburner tests, bringing it closer to achieving quieter supersonic flight. Built by ...

NASA’s mission has developed the X-59. The supersonic plane has a unique ... A sonic boom is created when a supersonic jet breaks the sound barrier. Two booms actually occur when the plane ...

It exists purely to explore new supersonic technology ... Beyond its unique shape, the X-59 is not unlike a contemporary jet fighter. In fact, principal components for the new X-Plane such ...

When people say you can see a fighter jet before you hear it ... They plan to fly their X-59 supersonic aircraft over US cities and gauge responses from citizens. Quesst aims to use the geometry ...

That could mean quieter supersonic travel in the future. NASA has been working on this imaging tech since 2019 to help develop its own supersonic jet, the X-59.