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X-59: US supersonic aircraft hits Mach 1.2 at 49,000 feet in 25th test flight

NASA’s X-59 experimental supersonic aircraft has successfully completed 25 test flights. It reached Mach ...

NASA Readies Its Quiet Supersonic Jet for a Noise Test Later This Year

The X-59 took off from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California on August 21 for the latest in a series ...
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Hermeus and Anduril team up to boost the autonomy of Quarterhorse Mk2 supersonic aircraft

Hermeus has selected Anduril to integrate its mission autonomy technology with the Quarterhorse Mk ...
Aviation Week Network

Boom Supersonic Gears Up For Engine Prototype Core Testing

COLORADO SPRINGS—Supersonic aircraft developer Boom is nearing completion of a prototype of its in-house produced engine core which is expected to begin ground tests at the company’s Watkins, Colorado ...

What Happened to the Concorde? All About the Supersonic Plane That Cut Travel Time in Half and Cost $7,574 Per Ticket

A number of factors led to the Concorde ceasing all operations in 2003, including a fatal crash that killed 113 people in ...
autoevolution

Supersonic Tech Used to Make the World's Fastest Airliner Will Power AI Data Centers

This is not something I ever thought I would say, but a piece of supersonic technology designed to help create the world's fastest airliner will soon be used to power AI centers. A strange reality ...

Supersonic flight is making a comeback decades after the Concorde. But one big hurdle remains

Fifty years after a US ban, the door is cracked open again to faster-than-sound travel over land. And experts think they finally have an issue that killed it.
New Atlas

NASA's X-59 rolls closer to supersonic flight – slowly

NASA's X-59 is taking slow steps towards supersonic flight, beginning taxiing tests at US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The final part of Phase One development, it's the precursor to ...
Ars Technica

NASA’s X-59 “frankenjet” tests supersonic flight without the sonic boom

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...
The National Interest

NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Plane Just Made Its First Flight

The X-59 is designed to transform the sonic boom associated with supersonic flight into a “sonic thump”—making it feasible to fly over populated areas. NASA’s new X-59 experimental jet flew for the ...
Yahoo Finance

Boom Supersonic to Power AI Data Centers With Superpower Natural Gas Turbines; Adds $300 Million in New Funding

DENVER, December 09, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boom Supersonic, the company building the world's fastest airliner, today announced a backlog of more than $1.25 billion for its Superpower turbine and ...
SlashGear

Neither Concorde Nor Tupolev: This Was The First Airliner To Go Supersonic

It would make a great Jeopardy question — what was the first airliner in the world to reach supersonic speeds? Many people would likely answer the Concorde, the distinctive and sleek supersonic ...