NASA’s experimental X-59 has finally traded the hangar for the sky, marking a historic first flight that could rewrite the ...

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American space agency NASA released new images of the first flight of the X-59, but also details on what's next for the program.

NASA’s X-59 test flights rely on chase aircraft to monitor safety, communications, data collection, and instrumentation as ...

NASA pilot David “Nils” Larson outlines X-59 early flight tests, design features, risk management, and planned research phases based on NASA’s Small Steps, Giant Leaps podcast.

The X-59 QueSST aims to be the first supersonic aircraft to reduce the "boom" to a "thumb" and overcome one of the great ...

The "quiet supersonic aircraft's historic first flight is on the horizon, with final ground tests about to begin." That's how NASA decided to mark this year's National Aviation Day, getting us all ...

If you're a fan of high-tech aircraft, you're going to love this! A much-awaited unveiling and a promise to revolutionize commercial aviation. “Today we are witnessing history,” said John Clark, ...

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 ...

"Flying the airplane is exciting, but that engineering is really exciting as well,” said Larson. The goal of the X-59's ...