Today NASA is officially trotting out the finished version of an experimental aircraft that looks like a stretched-out arrowhead. Painted in red, white, and blue, the plane is called the X-59, and it ...
The explosive noise happens when an aircraft travels faster than the speed of sound. Though the X-59 is not a prototype, its technology could influence the future of supersonic flight. Earlier this ...
In the world of aviation, commercial airliners often steal the spotlight, but the backbone of personal and business flying has always been the general aviation (GA) industry. From small ...
Nov. 6 (UPI) --NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the aircraft can reduce sonic booms and make supersonic flight over ...
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NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center advanced multi-mission flight research in 2025, including supersonic testing, ...
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A NASA-Raytheon Company team recently demonstrated the results of its advanced transportation systems research at the 2005 Small Aircraft Transportation Systems (SATS) conference in Danville, Va. Test ...
Media are invited to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., at 1:30 p.m. EDT on Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, to view progress on the eXternal Vision System (XVS) that will allow NASA’s X-59 Quiet ...