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 ...

NASA is ramping up its X-59 supersonic aircraft testing campaign with a series of envelope expansion test flights. On April 14, the space agency stress tested the X-59, with a pilot performing a ...

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...

At the end of October 2025, when the government shutdown was beginning to get serious, American space agency NASA conducted the first flight of the X-59 experimental supersonic aircraft. It was a ...

Just a few days after it announced it was getting ready to conduct the second test flight of the X-59, the American space agency NASA cleared the experimental aircraft to take off in its most ...

NASA's X-59 jet is on the verge of finally breaking the sound barrier. The X-59 is a supersonic aircraft designed with a radical elongated geometry that aims to reduce the volume of the sonic booms it ...

The Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst, which stands for "Quiet SuperSonic Technology," is an experimental aircraft developed by Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works. That's the same organization that developed ...

NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft has officially gone supersonic for the first time, marking a major milestone in the agency's effort to make commercial high-speed air travel viable over land again.

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 ...

NASA completed subsonic testing of the X-59 and is preparing software updates and acoustic evaluations ahead of the aircraft's first supersonic flights. The X-59 completed subsonic tests, with data ...