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NASA's X-59 completes first flight, prepares for more flight testing

After years of design, development, and testing, NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took to the skies for the first time Oct. 28, marking a historic moment for the field of aeronautics ...
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Inside NASA’s X-59 Low-Boom Demonstrator

As the first major piloted NASA X-plane to fly in a generation and the first crewed, purpose-built U.S. high-speed research aircraft since the X-15 of the 1960s, the X-59 low-boom ...
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NASA to monitor how the X59 supersonic plane sounds

NASA will use 30 ground recording stations to monitor the sound produced by the X-59 QueSST experimental aircraft. Learn more ...
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Photos: Amazing X-Planes from the X-1 to XV-15

The Rotor Systems Research Aircraft/X-Wing, a vehicle that was used to demonstrate an advanced rotor/fixed wing concept called X-Wing, is shown here on Nov. 4, 1986. The vehicle was rolled out in 1986 ...