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Here's Your First Look at the Freshly Painted X-59, NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Plane
Gizmodo,
Commercial faster-than-sound travel over land doesn’t happen anymore—but in the U.S., it could soon, with the debut of a new experimental plane developed by NASA and Lockheed Martin. The X-59 aircraft is designed to test out sonic boom-less supersonic flight, producing only sonic ‘thumps’ as it speeds through the… Read more...