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The first dreams of supersonic air travel were crushed by annoyed Oklahoma City residents in the 1960s. Decades later, it could now be viable.
NASA plans to conduct community overflights beginning this year, flying the X-59 over select American cities to collect ...
Supersonic tunnel trials suggest the X-59’s shape can scatter shock waves, paving the way for hush-hush high-speed flight.
Researchers from NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently tested a scale model of the X-59 ...
American space agency NASA sent a 19-inch scale version of the X-59 experimental aircraft to a Japanese wind tunnel for ...
NASA is developing a Mach 4 passenger jet that could cut international flight times by more than half. If successful, it would break speed records while solving the noise issues that doomed previous ...
Some may already be familiar with the sonic boom that accompanies a break to the sound barrier, but when and why would ...
The first dreams of supersonic air travel were crushed by annoyed Oklahoma City residents in the 1960s. Decades later, it could now be viable.
After Nick Sheryka's dreams of flying for the U.S. military were dashed because of hearing loss in his left ear, he didn't ...
NASA/Jacob ShawNASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft has officially begun taxi tests, marking the first time this ...
The blade tip speed limit of a propeller plane's propeller can determine the plane's top speed for reasons relating to design ...