Why It Took The X-59 Nearly A Year Of Flights To Finally Break The Sound Barrier
Breaking down the careful, forward march of supersonic engineering.
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NASA's X-59 reaches target speed and altitude for community overflights
Experimental aircraft flew at Mach 1.4 and 55,000 feet, the conditions planned for future tests of its low-noise supersonic design
Air Data News•Ricardo Meier17 JunAN
NASA’s X-59 Achieves Milestone Speed and Altitude in Quest for Quiet Supersonic Travel
Aviation News – NASA’s X-59 research aircraft successfully reached its target cruise speed of Mach 1.4 and an altitude of 55,000 feet simultaneously during a...
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NASA X-59 Hits Planned Supersonic Test Conditions
Quiet supersonic demonstrator reaches Mach 1.4 and 55,000 feet ahead of planned community flights.
AVweb•Matt Ryan16 JunA
NASA X-59 goes supersonic for first time in quiet-boom flight test program
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft has flown faster than the speed of sound for the first time,…
AeroTime•Stephen Pope7 Jun