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NASA's X-59 silences the sonic boom – 3-hour cross-country flights are back

NASA's X-59 successfully reduced sonic booms from thunder-level 105 decibels to whisper-quiet 75 decibels, potentially ending the 50-year supersonic flight ban.
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NASA's X-59 completes first flight, prepares for more flight testing

After years of design, development, and testing, NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took to the skies for the first time Oct. 28, marking a historic moment for the field of aeronautics ...
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Inside NASA’s X-59 Low-Boom Demonstrator

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 ...
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New video takes you into the cockpit for 1st flight of NASA's new X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA A new video ...
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NASA’s silent X-59 jet can break sound barrier with almost no noise, take passengers from NYC to London in 3½ hours

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, ...
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NASA Releases More Chase Plane In-Flight Photos of the X-59, And They’re Glorious

At the end of October 2025, American space agency NASA finally flew, for the first time, its brand-new X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft. It was a rather short, unspectacular flight, but it ...
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How NASA Is Using F-15s to Unlock Supersonic Flight

NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft, part of the Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QUESST) program, aims to reduce sonic booms to quieter "sonic thumps" to enable supersonic flight over land. Two retired U.S ...
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NASA's supersonic jet completes its first flight in California

Nearly a decade after NASA partnered with Lockheed Martin to build the X-59, the supersonic jet has completed its first flight in California, according to a press release spotted by Gizmodo. The X-59 ...
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Quiet supersonic X-59 jet soars over California desert in first test flight

PALMDALE, California (Reuters) -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 ...
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NASA gets new F-15 fighter jet to chase its X-59 'quiet' supersonic aircraft

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Retired Oregon Air National Guard F-15s Enter NASA Service to Chase X-59 Supersonic Plane

At the time when most of us were getting ready to unpack our Christmas gifts, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, was already celebrating: on December 22, it received two F ...