NASA’s X-59 Ignites Afterburner in Major Test, Bringing Quiet Supersonic Travel Closer to Reality

NASA’s X-59 Ignites Afterburner in Major Test, Bringing Quiet Supersonic Travel Closer to Reality

NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft has achieved a major milestone in the quest for quiet supersonic flight. Engineers successfully ran the jet’s engine at full afterburner during nighttime ground testing at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The dramatic test brings the X-59 closer to flying faster than sound without producing the disruptive sonic