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 ...
The future of high speed travel did not arrive with a deafening crack over the ocean, but with a controlled, almost modest flight over the California desert. A slender experimental jet, built not to ...
Kingston University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. An experimental supersonic aircraft called the X-59 took to the skies for the first time in October. The plane lifted off from ...
A pair of retired U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagles could be instrumental in the effort to lift the FAA's nearly 53-year ban on supersonic flight over land. The F-15s are slated to partake in groundbreaking ...