Six flights in a single week is a pace no earlier stretch of the X-59’s test program had reached, and NASA says so in its own words. Over September 22 to 25, the agency’s quiet-supersonic research jet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s experimental X-59 plane in flight on June 5, 2026, the first time the aircraft has reached supersonic speeds. NASA's ...

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft has completed 25 test flights, with its 25th flight reaching Mach 1.2. NASA ...

After 25 test flights, NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic experimental aircraft steadily continues to pass performance marks set by its team. This successful run of tests has the aircraft on a path toward a ...

On June 5, NASA’s experimental X-59 plane went supersonic for the first time. The aircraft zoomed through the sky at a top speed of about 713 miles per hour, or Mach 1.1, and an altitude of 43,400 ...

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 ...

There might come a time, soon enough, when commercial supersonic flight over land could be possible all over the world. If that happens, history will probably remember the X-59 experimental aircraft ...

NASA's X-59 supersonic jet, designed to fly without sonic booms, just hit a testing milestone in California. Here's what comes next.

NASA's X-59 research plane took its first supersonic flight at the beginning of the month, and now it's demonstrated that it can reach the speed and altitude conditions it'll need to achieve for ...

Just days after NASA’s experimental X-59 plane flew at supersonic speeds for the first time, the space agency has announced another milestone for the research aircraft. The plane is designed to travel ...