NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...

What is required to transform the thunderous crack of a sonic boom into a mere whisper across the sky? On July 10, 2025, the solution became visible on the sun-drenched runways of Palmdale, California ...

NASA has completed the first taxi tests of its experimental X-59 supersonic demonstrator, which aims to conduct low sonic ...

NASA Goes Off Script, Runs X-59 Engine Speed Hold Test Ahead of Schedule X-59 Supersonic Plane Spotted Next to NASA F-15, The Two Planes Band Together for a Reason NASA Snaps the Throttle of Its X ...

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NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft was developed by Lockheed Martin Skunk Works for the space agency's Low-Boom Flight ... (X-plane) is 100 feet long (30.4 meters) and has a 29. ...

We've talked a lot over the past few years about the NASA X-59 experimental aircraft, and chances are that the number of new bits of info concerning the plane will only increase in the coming months.

NASA and Boeing have effectively cancelled the X-66 Transonic Truss-Braced Wing ... X-66 transonic demonstrator plane shelved By David Szondy. April 28, 2025 Facebook; Twitter; ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 2, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and its partners will work on the preliminary design of the Quiet Supersonic Transport X-plane under a $20 million task order award ...