The race for quiet supersonic flight takes a leap forward with NASA's X-59. But what challenges remain before it becomes a ...
The explosive noise happens when an aircraft travels faster than the speed of sound. Though the X-59 is not a prototype, its technology could influence the future of supersonic flight. Earlier this ...
NASA's X-59 supersonic aircraft. Lockheed Martin/Garry Tice NASA's X-59 supersonic aircraft. Lockheed Martin/Martin Tice NASA’s experimental X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) plane is gearing ...
Boeing's X-66 is an experimental aircraft for NASA's sustainable flight demonstrator project, featuring a unique Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) design. This design aims to reduce fuel consumption ...
A sonic boom’s trademark thunderclap has long been associated with vehicles traveling faster than Mach 1. As a plane’s velocity surpasses the speed of sound, the shockwave formed by its wake results ...
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NASA has shown off its new quiet supersonic aircraft, the X-59. Created along with Lockheed Martin, the aircraft is designed to reduce the sonic boom created by traveling faster than the speed of ...
It's been a very busy year for one of NASA's more daring aeronautical projects, one meant to find an innovative way to cut down airplane fuel consumption and emissions. So busy, in fact, that all the ...
Come early next year American space agency NASA will fly, for the first time, an experimental aircraft that could one day bring back civilian supersonic aircraft, and might even allow them to fly at ...
NASA and Boeing said Monday the aircraft produced through the agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project has been designated by the U.S. Air Force as the X-66A. The new X-plane seeks to inform a ...
That line opened one of the most iconic television shows of the 1970s. The Six Million Dollar Man was part science fiction, ...
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