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NASA and Lockheed Martin achieve first flight of X-59 quiet supersonic demonstrator

NASA and Lockheed Martin's X-59 supersonic demonstrator has completed its maiden flight from Palmdale, California, marking a ...

X-59, NASA's Quiet Supersonic Jet, Flies Over US Desert In First Test Flight

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 sound barrier with little noise, ...

Quiet supersonic X-59 jet soars over California in unofficial first test flight

NASA's X-59 supersonic-but-quiet jet airplane soared over the Southern California desert on Tuesday in the first test flight ...
Aviation Week

Comac Studies Low-Boom Supersonic Airliner As Future Option

Adding a quiet spike nose probe (lower right) and boom control tail bump (lower left) helped Comac meet its sonic boom target. Credit: Comac via Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica China’s Comac ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Seminar: Towards the Design of a Morphing Supersonic Low Boom Aircraft Using Shape Memory Alloy Actuators - May 13

Abstract: The return of commercial supersonic flight requires innovative solutions to be developed that meet noise and efficiency requirements for overland flight. To study such a possibility NASA is ...
Aviation Week Network

NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Research Aircraft Makes First Flight

Flown by NASA X-59 lead pilot Nils Larson, the much-anticipated first flight of the Lockheed Martin-built aircraft began at 8 ...