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NASA’s X-57: Learn How Electric is the Shape of Things to Come

In this What's New in Aerospace program, NASA’s Nicholas Borer talks about the X-57 “Maxwell,” an all-electric experimental aircraft. Today, electrically-powered aircraft are starting to take flight, ...
AeroTime

NASA X-59 completes first flight in pursuit of boomless supersonic travel: video

NASA and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works have successfully flown the X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft for the first time ...
ExecutiveGov

NASA, Lockheed Complete Initial X-59 Flight Test

X-59 takes its maiden flight from Lockheed's Skunk Works in Palmdale to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, ...
Flying

Emerging Technologies

Engineers working on NASA’s X-57 Maxwell are closing in on the all-electric experimental airplane’s first flight test, expected as early as September 20. Stratolaunch, operator of the world’s largest ...

NASA's supersonic jet completes its first flight in California

Nearly a decade after NASA partnered with Lockheed Martin to build the X-59, the supersonic jet has completed its first ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin test quiet supersonic jet X-59 over California desert

NASA and Lockheed Martin test the X-59 quiet supersonic jet over California, paving the way for faster, quieter commercial ...
UPI

NASA's X-59 moves under its own power

July 22 (UPI) --NASA's quest for a quieter supersonic jet passed an early test after its X-59 aircraft was able to taxi at low speed at a manufacturing plant in California. The space agency on Tuesday ...
New York Post

NASA’s supersonic X-59 jet that could slash NYC-London flight time in half taxis closer to take off

Breakfast in New York, midmorning snack in London. Taxi tests are underway on a highly anticipated supersonic plane designed to quietly break the sound barrier — and slash flight time between New York ...