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NASA’s X-59 is about to crack the sound barrier without the boom — and possibly change how we fly
For seven decades, the sonic boom has been the price of speed. Chuck Yeager shattered the sound barrier in 1947, and ever ...
After months of test flights, NASA’s X-59 aircraft is gearing up for its biggest challenge yet: breaking the sound barrier ...
NASA's X-59 jet is on the verge of finally breaking the sound barrier as the agency looks forward to the aircraft's first ...
NASA’s futuristic X-59 jet is about to face its biggest challenge yet: breaking the sound barrier for the first time. After a successful series of test flights that pushed the aircraft to ...
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A supersonic jet just broke the sound barrier again in a test flight — racing to bring back faster-than-sound air travel for the first time since the Concorde
On a clear morning over the Mojave Desert in January 2025, a dart-shaped jet called XB-1 punched through Mach 1 and kept ...
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Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight. Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake Scholl ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
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