As the first major piloted NASA X-plane to fly in a generation and the first crewed, purpose-built U.S. high-speed research aircraft since the X-15 of the 1960s, the X-59 low-boom ...

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works is catching up with Boom Supersonic by flying its X-59 experimental quiet supersonic aircraft for the first time. Boom has not only flown its test aircraft, but achieved ...

Key Points and Summary - NASA and Lockheed’s X-59 just flew, proving “quiet supersonic” can replace the sonic boom with a “gentle thump.” -Designed to cruise at Mach 1.4 and 55,000 feet, the X-59 will ...

NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) experimental supersonic aircraft took to the skies for the first time on October 28, 2025 from Lockheed Martin's famously secret Skunk Works at the US ...

NASA’s sleek and quiet supersonic jet — which is built to reach speeds of up to 925 mph without producing a loud sonic boom— soared across the California desert in its first test flight on Tuesday, ...

Humankind is always on a quest for speed: You can ride the fastest rollercoaster in the world, the Formula Rossa, at Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi, and the fastest land speed record was achieved in 1997 ...

A new "quiet" supersonic X-59 jet designed to revolutionize air travel successfully completed its first test flight, Lockheed Martin announced this week. The sleek, needle-point aircraft built for ...

PALMDALE, California >> NASA’s X-59 supersonic-but-quiet jet soared over the Southern California desert on Tuesday in the first test flight of an experimental aircraft designed to break the sound ...

Lockheed Martin's X-59 won CMTA's 2024 Coolest Thing Made in California. NASA and Lockheed built the X-59 to reduce sonic booms and gather noise data. CMTA contest drew over 200,000 votes and ...

Following its first flight last October, NASA’s X-59 supersonic demonstrator now sits partially disassembled at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in the California desert. There, workers ...