Here's how NASA's supersonic jet could transform commercial air travel

NASA's Quesst mission looks to develop a supersonic aircraft that could one day transform commercial air travel in the United ...
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This Is NASA's Fastest Aircraft Ever

The fastest air-breathing vehicle ever built was the NASA X-43. Only three of these aircraft were built, with one being destroyed and two operating successfully. The X-43 testbed aircraft measured 12 ...

NASA jet goes supersonic in California. What that means for air travel

California has played a central role in NASA's push to test its X-59 jet and usher in an era of commercial supersonic air ...
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NASA X-59 supersonic aircraft's first flight - highlights and team reflections

NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft conducted its first flight in Oct. 2025. The team behind the plane talks about it.
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In a First, NASA’s Experimental X-59 Plane Flew Faster Than the Speed of Sound, Setting the Stage for ‘Quiet’ Supersonic Aircraft

The United States banned supersonic flights over its land in 1973 due to their ear-splitting sonic booms. Experts are building a plane that should travel at those speeds but create only gentle thumps ...

NASA’s X-59 “frankenjet” tests supersonic flight without the sonic boom

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 ...
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MagniX shows off test airplane for NASA’s hybrid electric flight demonstration project

Challenges, breakthroughs and big ideas in the race to protect our planet. SEE MORE by Alan Boyle on Aug 22, 2024 at 7:22 pm August 26, 2024 at 5:27 pm MagniX CEO Reed Macdonald speaks at the ...

NASA Super Guppy will miss EAA AirVenture Oshkosh

NASA's Super Guppy aircraft has canceled its scheduled appearance at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh airshow. The cancellation was ...
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NASA to Start Building the World's First Mild Hybrid-Electric Engine for Airplanes

It's been a long time coming, but finally actual build work has begun on a new kind of airplane engine, one that might revolutionize the industry. NASA calls it the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core ...
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NASA Talk Shows How Most Aircraft Had Model Beginnings

On Tuesday, June 4, at NASA’s Langley Research Center, retired NASA aerospace engineer Joe Chambers will present, “Modeling Flight: The Role of Dynamically Scaled Free-Flying Models in NASA’s Research ...
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Industry Uses NASA Wind Tunnels to Design New Airplanes

NASA-developed wind tunnel technology is being used by the aviation industry to perfect new airplane designs throughout the entire development process. The Boeing Company, Seattle, is one manufacturer ...