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NASA conducts first supersonic flight of X59 aircraft

New Delhi: NASA’s experimental aircraft X59 broke the supersonic barrier for the first time during an intensified test campaign. The test pilot Jim ‘Clue’ Less took off and landed at the Edwards Air ...
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NASA To Monitor How The X59 Supersonic Plane Sounds

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA will use 30 ground recording stations to monitor the sound produced by the X-59 QueSST experimental aircraft. Learn more ...
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NASA Releases More Chase Plane In-Flight Photos of the X-59, And They’re Glorious

At the end of October 2025, American space agency NASA finally flew, for the first time, its brand-new X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft. It was a rather short, unspectacular flight, but it ...
Ars Technica

NASA’s X-59 “frankenjet” tests supersonic flight without the sonic boom

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...
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NASA test pilot visits Cleveland after X-59 plane takes its first flight: Growing STEM

CLEVELAND — The X-59 is a one-of-a-kind aircraft. And that same can be said about its test pilot, Nils Larson. "Flying the airplane is exciting, but that engineering is really exciting as well,” said ...