NASA’s freshly painted X-59 aircraft will be rolled out of its hangar on Friday, January 12, in the lead-up to its first ...

Starting on Oct. 30, engineers with NASA's X-59 Quesst program (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) have been conducting test runs of the jet's engines at the storied Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in ...

American space agency NASA and defence specialists Lockheed Martin have started testing the jet engine that powers the X-59 ...

“The first phase of the engine tests was really a warm-up to make sure that everything looked good prior to running the engine,” said Jay Brandon, NASA’s X-59 chief engineer. “Then we ...

X-59’s engine started for testing for the first time. NASA’s Quesst (“Quiet SuperSonic Technology”) mission recently achieved a key milestone as it began testing the engine that will power ...

The X-59 is an experimental plane that will fly faster than the speed of sound without a loud sonic boom. It will be the first of its kind to fly, with the goal of gathering sound data for NASA's ...

What You Need to Know: NASA’s supersonic X-59 aircraft has taken another critical step toward flight, as its engine was powered up successfully on October 30. Developed by Lockheed Martin's ...

The NASA team developing the X-59 supersonic demonstrator jet have fired up the aircraft’s GE Aviation F414-GE-100 powerplant for the first time, having started engine-run tests on 30 October.

NASA's revolutionary X-59 jet is steadily progressing towards its first flight test. Starting on Oct. 30, engineers with NASA's X-59 Quesst program (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) have been ...

Nov. 6 (UPI) --NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the aircraft can reduce sonic booms and make supersonic flight over ...

The X-59 is part of Nasa's Quesst mission, which aims to make the booms quieter and convince authorities to allow supersonic flights over land. What is a sonic boom ? A sonic boom is a deep ...

NASA has marked a major milestone in its creation of an experimental aircraft. A team has started engine testing for the X-59. It’s a supersonic aircraft that’ll fly without generating loud ...