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NASA Grants to Engage Students in Quiet Supersonic Community Overflight
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NASA has issued new grants to five universities to help develop education plans for the community overflight phase of the…

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NASA Instruments Will Listen for Supersonic X-59’s Quiet ‘Thump’
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NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is unique – it’s designed to fly faster than the speed of sound, but without causing…

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NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft
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NASA and Lockheed Martin formally debuted the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft Friday. Using this one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims…

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NASA’s X-59 Rollout Embodies Aeronautical Tradition
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Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA’s X-59 aircraft is heading out of the hangar – preparing to embark on…

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NASA Invites You to X-59 Rollout Watch Party
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It’s almost time for NASA’s supersonic X-59 airplane to make its red, white, and blue public debut, and you’re invited…

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Is a Mach 4 Passenger Jet Possible? NASA, Industry Explore Idea
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Flying from New York City to London up to four times faster than what’s currently possible may sound like a…

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NASA’s Quesst: Reassessing a 50-Year Supersonic Speed Limit
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NASA will deliver the results to U.S. and international regulators, who will consider new rules that would lift the ban…

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NASA Creating Tool to Predict Supersonic Jet Noise at Takeoff
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NASA researchers recently conducted a series of flights to record the sound of jet engines with the goal of using…

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Taming the BOOM
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NASA hopes the ban on commercial supersonic flight over land can be lifted by replacing the loud sonic boom with…

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NASA Selects Contractor for Quiet Supersonic Flight Community Testing
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NASA has awarded a contract to Harris Miller Miller & Hanson Inc. of Burlington, Massachusetts, to support a national campaign…

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NASA and JAXA to Work Together on Testing X-59 Model
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In the world of aviation research, new knowledge and tools can come from working with friends on a big project.…

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NASA Awards Contract for X-59 Community Overflight Operations
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NASA has selected Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company of Palmdale, California, to provide support for the community overflight response phase of…

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Aeronautical Artwork, Computer Simulation, or Both?
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Although it may look like an abstract piece of aeronautical artwork that could hang as a painting over an enthusiastic…

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NASA’s F/A-18 Research Jet is Just Plain Beautiful
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Take a moment and just stare at this beautiful airplane. Whether or not you have an interest in aeronautics or…

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NASA Marks Continued Progress on X-59
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Assembly of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft is continuing during 2020 and making good progress, despite challenges such as…

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NASA Takes Delivery of GE Jet Engine for X-59
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Mark the big one-of-a-kind engine, designed and built just for NASA, as delivered. Nearly 13 feet long, three feet in…

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More Pieces of the X-59 are Coming Together
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The wing and cockpit sections of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) are coming together at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works®…

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X-59 QueSST More than the Sum of Its Parts
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A time-honored tradition employed by the aerospace community for decades is continuing with the assembly of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic…

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Quiet Supersonic Flight Over Land – Lowering the Boom
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During the fall of 2019, a trio of free webinars were presented by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate and the…

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X-59 QueSST Wing Assembly
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The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology, or QueSST, wing assembly is lifted by a crane and moved to another area of…

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NASA’s Supersonic X-59 QueSST Coming Together at Famed Factory
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In the high desert of California, where some of the most important aircraft in aviation history have been built and…

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NASA Goes Quiet Over Galveston for Flight Series
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NASA is set to begin a series of quiet supersonic research flights off the coast of Texas near Galveston to…

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NASA Prepares to Go Public with Quiet Supersonic Tech
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Arriving 49,000 feet above the test site, higher than the airlines fly, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center test pilot Jim…

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NASA’s Experimental Supersonic Aircraft Now Known as X-59 QueSST
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NASA’s newest experimental aircraft, designed with quiet supersonic technology and intended to help open a new era in faster-than-sound air…

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NASA Announces Quiet Supersonic Flight Series to Validate Community Response Technique
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An upcoming NASA supersonic research flight series will examine methodology and technology to be used in future community response testing…

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NASA to Announce Quiet Supersonic Research Flights in Galveston
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NASA will hold a news conference at 9 a.m. CDT Tuesday, April 17, to unveil plans to conduct a series…

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New NASA X-Plane Construction Begins Now
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NASA’s aeronautical innovators are ready to take things supersonic, but with a quiet twist. For the first time in decades,…

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NASA Awards Contract to Build Quieter Supersonic Aircraft
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NASA has taken another step toward re-introducing supersonic flight with the award Tuesday of a contract for the design, building…

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Aviation Explorers Soak Up SonicBAT
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The future faces of aviation are awesome. Members of Aviation Explorers Post 747, a group of middle- to high-school youth…

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New Supersonic Technology Designed to Reduce Sonic Booms
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Residents along Florida’s Space Coast will soon hear a familiar sound — sonic booms. But instead of announcing a spacecraft’s…

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