NASA fires up X-59 supersonic jet engine for the first time
NASA’s Quesst mission has begun testing the engine that will power the X-59, an experimental aircraft designed for…
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Old four-engine DHC-7 to be converted to fly with electric motors
NASA and magniX have selected the old four-engine De Havilland DHC-7 turboprop as a test aircraft that will…
The incredible scissor-wing plane
Flight close to the speed of sound was a huge challenge for aerospace engineering as it soon became…
X-59, the plane that promises to make supersonic commercial flights something trivial in the next decade
On January 12, Lockheed Martin and NASA presented the X-59, an experimental aircraft that aims to enable supersonic…
Boeing begins conversion of MD-90 jet into NASA’s X-66 experimental aircraft
Boeing has begun the conversion of an old MD-90 commercial jet into the X-66 technology demonstration aircraft, a…
NASA to unveil the X-59 experimental plane on January 12, 2024
NASA’s long-awaited Quesst (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) program, which will study technologies to reduce the noise caused by the…
MD-90 that will be transformed into Transonic Truss-Braced Wing X-66A concept is unveiled by Boeing
Boeing has revealed that it has moved an MD-90 to NASA’s Palmdale, Calif., facility, where the jet will…
NASA X-59 supersonic test aircraft almost ready to fly
New images recently released by NASA have revealed the complete shape of the X-59 Quesst, a supersonic demonstration…
NASA ends X-57 electric plane program without flying prototype
The X-57 “Maxwell”, a plane with an all-electric engine, was terminated by NASA, the United States space agency,…
Boeing and NASA Commercial Aircraft Concept Will Use MD-90 Fuselage
The US hope of putting a single-aisle commercial jet on the market capable of saving up to 30%…
Future 737 replacement may have truss-braced wings, says Boeing
Boeing is betting on the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing concept to design the future replacement for the 737, admitted…
Boeing 737 successor may use hybrid electric propulsion
If it depends on NASA, Airbus will have trouble making hydrogen propulsion a new standard for commercial aircraft…
New supersonic XB-1 and X-59 airplanes have noise as the biggest challenge
Fifty years ago, the Concorde and its Russian rival Tu-144 pioneered supersonic passenger flight, but ended up succumbing…
NASA begins final assembly of supersonic jet X-59
NASA announced this week that it has approved the final assembly and system integration of the Quiet SuperSonic…
Successor of the Concorde: bigger, but slower and with less capacity
Perhaps the most stunning passenger plane ever created, the Concorde is synonymous with supersonic jet for a lot…
Lockheed Martin will make a Low-Boom Supersonic X-Plane to NASA
NASA awarded Lockheed Martin´s Skunk Works division a $ 247,5 million contract to design and build a Low-Boom…