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NASA gets new F-15 fighter jet to chase its X-59 'quiet' supersonic aircraft

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NASA’s New Push To Modernize MRO

NASA is spearheading several initiatives focused on how technology could be harnessed to improve MRO and prepare the sector for next-generation aviation, such as advanced air mobility. According to ...

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft soars in first flight highlights

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft conducted its historic first-ever flight. See the flight highlights here. Credit: NASA ...
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How NASA Is Using F-15s to Unlock Supersonic Flight

NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft, part of the Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QUESST) program, aims to reduce sonic booms to quieter "sonic thumps" to enable supersonic flight over land. Two retired U.S ...
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NASA Spills All the Beans on Skunk Works X-59 Experimental Aircraft's First Flight

At the end of October 2025, when the government shutdown was beginning to get serious, American space agency NASA conducted the first flight of the X-59 experimental supersonic aircraft. It was a ...
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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 testing supersonic aircraft that produces no sonic booms

HAMPTON, Va. — NASA is in the process of testing a new, experimental aircraft designed to achieve supersonic flight… but without the loud, sonic boom. The X-59 QUESST — short for Quiet SuperSonic ...