Supersonic Flight Without The Boom: NASA’s X-59 Experimental Aircraft Takes Flight For First Time

Image caption: Quiet, everyone, it’s blast off: X-59 departs on its maiden flight. Image credit: Lockheed Martin Skunk Works. Article by Tom Hale. IFLScience – October 29, 2025.

Shush! The era of quiet supersonic air travel is upon us. After years of development and setbacks, aeronautical engineers in the US flew the X-59, a “revolutionary” experimental aircraft designed to perform supersonic flight not with a sonic boom, but a hushed thump. […]

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