After years of design, development, and testing, NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took to the skies for the ...

The X-59 is shown during its historic first flight flown by NASA test pilot Nils Larson.NASA/Lori Losey NASA's X-59 quiet ...

Now that the government shutdown is over, American space agency NASA released all the details about the historic first flight ...

SUPERSONIC holiday flights over land are one step closer after an experimental “quiet” supersonic Nasa jet took flight. Late ...

NASA's X59 quiet supersonic aircraft flew for the first time on 28 October. The research aircraft is designed to reduce the ...

NASA's experimental supersonic jet, the X-59, has completed its first successful test flight over the California desert.

FANCY popping to the other side of the world in just a few hours? It might not be as farfetched as it sounds. Aerospace ...

Imagine flying long distances in nearly half the time — and in quiet skies. NASA’s X-59 jet could soon turn supersonic travel into reality.

A collaboration between NASA and Lockheed Martin has produced an experimental jet capable of flying beyond the speed of sound ...

The jet, built by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, took off from US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. Flown by Nils Larson, NASA’s lead test pilot for the X-59, the inaugural flight validated ...

When aeronautical engineers have new ideas to try out, after having done all they can with computer models, they take what they have learned and actually build an experimental aircraft to test the new ...