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

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 ...

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.

Boeing and NASA will pause work on a new, experimental aircraft design meant to deliver more sustainable options for the future of aviation. The aircraft project — called the X-66A Sustainable ...

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; ...

NASA said Tuesday the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract calls for the development of a Low-Boom Flight Demonstration aircraft, dubbed X-plane, designed to travel at a speed of about 940 miles per ...