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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 ...
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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, ...
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 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 ...
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NASA's X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet rolls out for its 1st test drive (video)
NASA recently took its new X-59 "quiet' supersonic jet for a drive during taxi tests, one of the final hurdles between the ...
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 ...
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Tiny Version of NASA Jet That'll Go Supersonic With No Boom Enters the Wind Tunnel
American space agency NASA sent a 19-inch scale version of the X-59 experimental aircraft to a Japanese wind tunnel for ...
NASA's ‘son of Concorde’ plane that will fly from London to New York in 3.5 hours gets big update
A plane that's set to fly from London to New York in less than four hours has just had a major update. NASA, along with Lockheed Martin, first unveiled the X-59 jet in January 2024, with the goal of ...
NASA's X-59 Supersonic Jet Could Take You From New York To London In Half The Time
The X-59 is the centerpiece of NASA's Quesst mission, which aims to demonstrate quiet supersonic flight by reducing the loud ...
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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.” ...