NASA’s sleek and quiet supersonic jet — which is built to reach speeds of up to 925 mph without producing a loud sonic boom— soared across the California desert in its first test flight on Tuesday, bringing speedy global trips one step closer.
The X-59 jet, dubbed the “son of Concorde,” carried out its first flight at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, with the test keeping to a low 230 mph and altitude of 12,000 feet for its first display.
The X-59’s will eventually hit 925 mph, which is Mach 1.4, and fly at 55,000 feet in the air, more than twice as high and nearly twice as fast as conventional airline jets, all while only causing a tiny boom, which would revolutionize commercial air travel…more
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