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NASA’s silent X-59 jet can break sound barrier with almost no noise, take passengers from NYC to London in 3½ hours

NASA’s sleek and quiet supersonic jet — which is built to reach speeds of up to 925 mph without producing a loud sonic boom— soared across the California desert in its first test flight on Tuesday, ...
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Nasa’s X-59 jet breaks the sound barrier without the boom, the future of flight just got real

NASA's X-59 supersonic jet completed its inaugural flight on Tuesday morning, October 28, over Southern California's Mojave Desert, approximately one hour after sunrise. The experimental aircraft took ...
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NASA's X-59 Supersonic Jet Completed Its First Test Flight

The "quiet" supersonic aircraft developed by NASA and Lockheed Martin has completed its first flight in California. Dubbed the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology Aircraft, it is a sleek experimental jet ...