Lockheed Martin Skunk Works has successfully flown the X-59 for the first time, in collaboration with NASA. The X-59 is a supersonic aircraft designed for quieter, faster commercial air travel. The ...

A new "quiet" supersonic X-59 jet designed to revolutionize air travel successfully completed its first test flight, Lockheed Martin announced this week. The sleek, needle-point aircraft built for ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works have successfully flown the X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft for the very first time after almost a decade of development. The X-59, also known as X-59 ...

NASA’s experimental X-59 jet took to the skies over Southern California on Tuesday (October 28) morning in its first test flight. The successful mission marked a major step toward the return of ...

NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) experimental supersonic aircraft took to the skies for the first time on October 28, 2025 from Lockheed Martin's famously secret Skunk Works at the US ...

X-59 ‘quiet’ supersonic jet completes first test flight The X-59 supersonic jet, designed for NASA with a goal of bringing supersonic speed without the ‘boom,’ completed its first test flight on ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works division have conducted the initial flight test of the X-59, a supersonic aircraft designed to reduce the noise associated with sonic booms. Lockheed said ...

Plane could help pave way for faster commercial air travel Aircraft built to break sound barrier with sonic 'thump' Designed to cruise at Mach 1.4 at altitude of 55,000 feet First test flight was ...

America’s newest supersonic aircraft, the Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST, has made its maiden flight. This was reported by the monitoring service Flightradar24. It is not yet known whether the aircraft ...

NASA's X-59 has finally taken flight. The X-59 is NASA's experimental new jet built to break the sound barrier without generating the thunderous sonic booms typically associated with supersonic flight ...

The story of the Bell-X2 Starbuster is one of equal success and tragedy. Pilots made history aboard this experimental aircraft, reaching altitudes and speeds that had never been recorded before.

A federal prosecutor appointed by the Trump administration without Senate approval to serve as the "acting U.S. attorney" for California's central district, which includes Los Angeles, was named to ...