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NASA’s X-59 QueSST Goes Supersonic

NASA’s X-59 QueSST flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, expanding into the supersonic portion of its ...
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NASA approves Lockheed Martin X-59 for maiden supersonic test flight phase

NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft, developed under the agency’s Quesst mission in partnership with Lockheed ...
Design News

Lockheed Martin's X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Completes First Flight & Heads to NASA

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works is catching up with Boom Supersonic by flying its X-59 experimental quiet supersonic aircraft for the first time. Boom has not only flown its test aircraft, but achieved ...
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Going supersonic! NASA's X-59 jet breaks sound barrier for the 1st time

NASA's X-59 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Friday (June 5), reaching a top speed of about Mach 1.1.
FLYING Magazine on MSN

NASA's X-59 may be days away from supersonic flight

Agency says the experimental, quiet aircraft is expected to break the sound barrier in early June.
New Atlas

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic jet completes maiden flight

NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) experimental supersonic aircraft took to the skies for the first time on October 28, 2025 from Lockheed Martin's famously secret Skunk Works at the US ...
Flightglobal

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

NASA and partner Lockheed Martin have made good on their plan to have the X-59 supersonic demonstrator airborne before year-end. The jet, commissioned by NASA to test design features intended to ...

Watch NASA's new experimental jet break the sound barrier for the first time

NASA is testing the X-59, an experimental plane that was designed to exceed the speed of sound without a loud sonic boom.
Digital Trends

Lockheed Martin’s X-59 completes first supersonic flight minus the sonic boom

What Happened: You know that earsplitting, window-rattling BOOM that planes make when they break the sound barrier? The one that got them banned from flying over land? Well, it might be a thing of the ...

NASA’s new supersonic X-59 aircraft shows off its dizzying acrobatics in new video

It’s been over a decade since engineers officially got to work on the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST). Designed in collaboration with NASA, Lockheed Martin’s state-o ...
Modesto Bee

See the ‘coolest thing made in California’ as Newsom praises Skunk Works product

Lockheed Martin's X-59 won CMTA's 2024 Coolest Thing Made in California. NASA and Lockheed built the X-59 to reduce sonic booms and gather noise data. CMTA contest drew over 200,000 votes and ...