X-59 Super-Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Makes Its First Test Flight

The X-59 low-boom supersonic aircraft flies over California's Mojave Desert. (Credit: Lockheed Martin)

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works has executed the first test flight of the X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft in partnership with NASA. The first flight was subsonic, but eventually the plane will demonstrate technologies aimed at reducing sonic booms to gentle thumps.

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