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

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.