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NASA, in collaboration with Lockheed Martin, is poised to unveil the innovative X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (Quesst) jet, a groundbreaking supersonic aircraft designed to break the sound barrier with significantly reduced noise levels. This high-tech jet, aimed at transforming supersonic travel, will be introduced to the public on January 12 through a livestream event. Constructed [...]
NASA’s X-59 aircraft moved from its construction site to the runway at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works. This crucial transition marks one of the many milestones in the preparation of the X-59 for its inaugural flight and subsequent tests. The next phase will involve conducting extensive ground tests to ensure the aircraft’s safety and performance. A [...]
NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 now has the engine that will power it in flight. The installation of the F414-GE-100 engine took place at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, earlier this month, marking a major milestone as the X-59 approaches the completion of its assembly. The 13-foot-long engine from General Electric Aviation packs [...]
NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet, which is being developed with Lockheed Martin, moved one step closer to flight last week after undergoing wind-tunnel tests. Nicknamed “Son of Concorde” after the Concorde commercial jet launched in the late 1960s, this new generation is called QueSST—or Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft. It’s designed to minimize sonic booms, which NASA [...]
NASA's Silent Supersonic Jet X-59 NASA's Silent Supersonic Jet X-59 is designed to transform the supersonic aircraft industry. Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works-built QueSST is anticipating an eventful 2022. The experimental X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft Skunk Works is building for NASA, is currently on its way to the company's plant in Fort Worth, [...]
A heavy chorus of bolting and machinery filled the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology, or QueSST, assembly building as engineers, system technicians, and aircraft fabricators worked to merge the major aircraft sections together, making it look like an actual aircraft for the first time since the initial cut of metal in 2018. “We’ve now transitioned from [...]
Assembly of NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft is continuing during 2020 and making good progress, despite challenges such as those imposed by the unexpected global pandemic. NASA plans as early as 2024 to fly the X-59 over select communities on missions to gather information about how the public will react to the level of [...]
Production on NASA's new X-59 supersonic X-plane despite closures and delays in the space industry caused by the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In a March 20 statement, NASA officials said that "in California, work continues by Lockheed Martin on X-59, NASA's first large-scale, piloted X-plane in more than [...]
The return of supersonic travel has long been an enticing prospect, offering the allure of dramatically reduced flight times. While it's been over half a century since Concorde introduced supersonic travel to the public, no modern commercial airliners currently exceed the speed of sound. However, the convergence of advanced materials, digital engineering, and the financial [...]
It’s been two decades since the cost-prohibitive Concorde supersonic passenger jet was retired from service, taking the possibility of transatlantic flight at supersonic speeds off the table for even the wealthiest of travelers. But, crossing the pond at up to four times as fast may become a possibility again in the not-too-distant future, given that [...]
