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

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

In a groundbreaking achievement, NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet has shattered the sound barrier without the disruptive sonic boom ...

NASA and Boeing are pausing the development of the X-66 full-scale Sustainable Flight Demonstrator. Instead, they will re-focus their efforts on demonstrating the benefits of thin-wing technology.

NASA test pilot Nils Larson flew the X-59 supersonic jet on its inaugural flight over California's Mojave Desert, validating a revolutionary aircraft designed to reduce sonic boom noise. The ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writing about vertical flight aircraft & advanced aviation technology. In 2022, NASA dropped an aircraft cabin (with six crash ...

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.

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.” Still, in some quarters, the dream lives ...

For years American space agency NASA has been trying to turn its ideas for the aviation industry into a reality. The organization is actively working on projects that are meant to make flying more eco ...

NASA and Wisk Aero (Boeing's eVTOL subsidiary) have signed a five-year Space Act agreement to research and integrate autonomous aircraft into the U.S. National Airspace System. The collaboration will ...