The 100-foot-long, 30-foot-wide X-59 supersonic aircraft, dubbed “son of Concorde,” was rolled out by NASA and Lockheed Martin on Friday, an innovation that officials said they expected to ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin have finally taken the wraps off of the X-59, a "quiet supersonic" aircraft that may shape the future of both military and civilian air travel. The X-59 has been under ...

The plane will remain parked near the runway during its ground and initial flight tests by Lockheed Martin.The 99.7-foot-long, 29.5-foot-wide aircraft is powered by a single jet engine, which was ...

Both NASA and Lockheed Martin recently released photos of the X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet conducting tests of its afterburner, a system that injects extra fuel into the hot exhaust of a jet engine ...

Earlier this month, NASA unveiled the X-59 aircraft, its experimental supersonic jet designed to travel faster than the speed of sound — with a "sonic boom" no louder than the bounce of a ...

Home/ Lockheed Martin. ... last week it has officially committed to a development timeline that will lead to the first flight of its X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft by 2021.

Lockheed Martin test pilot Dan Canin sits in the cockpit of NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft in a run stall at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California ...

1 of 3 | NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft, pictured on Dec. 12, sits on the apron outside Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, Calif. NASA File Photo by Steve Freeman/UPI ...

Supersonic aircraft achieve speeds faster than Mach 1 (approximately 1224 kilometers per hour). ... The space agency is currently testing its X-59 aircraft, which was built by Lockheed Martin.

NASA and Lockheed Martin have finally taken the wraps off of the X-59, a “quiet supersonic” aircraft that may shape the future of both military and civilian air travel.. The X-59 has been ...