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Minneapolis pilot gets rare look at United Airlines' future supersonic airliner and even gets to try its simulator

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NASA’s New Supersonic Jet Just Broke the Sound Barrier Twice on Test Flights

NASA’s X-59 is quietly reaching significant milestones.

Why was Concorde, the supersonic passenger aircraft with the droop nose discontinued?

Sonic boom restrictions limited Concorde to transatlantic flights, reducing its route flexibility and revenue potential.

X-59 reaches speed, altitude for future quiet supersonic flights

A new supersonic plane could spell the future of commercial flights over land that are less intrusive for the communities ...
Scientific American

NASA’s experimental quiet supersonic plane passes another critical milestone

Just days after NASA’s experimental X-59 plane flew at supersonic speeds for the first time, the space agency has announced ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In a First, NASA’s Experimental X-59 Plane Flew Faster Than the Speed of Sound, Setting the Stage for ‘Quiet’ Supersonic Aircraft

The United States banned supersonic flights over its land in 1973 due to their ear-splitting sonic booms. Experts are ...

NASA’s $247M ‘Son of Concorde’ high-speed jet just broke the sound barrier

Traveling at the speed of sound may actually be on the horizon. NASA’s supersonic aircraft, dubbed “son of Concorde” after ...

NASA’s X-59 is built to make supersonic flight quiet, and the real test is whether Concorde’s biggest problem finally disappears

NASA’s X-59 is changing supersonic travel. Can it turn the explosive sonic boom into a quiet "thump" to bring back fast ...

This Sam Altman- And Peter Thiel-Backed Aviation Company Achieves Supersonic Flight

Hermeus aims to make planes for the U.S. military that travel over five times the speed of sound—and maybe even introduce the world to hypersonic commercial air travel.
AOL

Supersonic flight is on its way back. I went on board the first Concorde, where it all began.

The author and the two Concordes in Paris's Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace.Pete Syme/BI Commercial flights faster than the speed of sound are one of the few historic innovations that have fallen out of ...
autoevolution

NASA's Windowless Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Flies Faster Than Mach 1 for the First Time

There might come a time, soon enough, when commercial supersonic flight over land could be possible all over the world. If that happens, history will probably remember the X-59 experimental aircraft ...
Digital Trends

Lockheed Martin’s X-59 completes first supersonic flight minus the sonic boom

What Happened: You know that earsplitting, window-rattling BOOM that planes make when they break the sound barrier? The one that got them banned from flying over land? Well, it might be a thing of the ...