QuesstUsing a massive update to a 150-year-old German photography technique, NASA and the United States Air Force recently released what's...The Twin Rectangular Jet model, installed on the Nozzle Acoustic Test Rig in the Aeroacoustic Propulsion Laboratory at NASA's Glenn...This updated future aircraft design concept from NASA research partner Lockheed Martin shows a few changes from another concept seen...The window in the sidewall of the 8- by 6-foot supersonic wind tunnel at NASA's Glenn Research Center shows a...The Bell X-1 rocket plane was the first to break the supposed sound barrier (or Mach 1) on Oct. 14,...The X-53 was a modified F/A-18 fighter used for a joint Air Force, Boeing and NASA project called the Active...NASA continued to explore new aircraft designs capable of reducing the noise level of sonic booms by test flying an...The first plane to reach Mach 2, or twice the speed of sound, was the Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket. Civilian test...Perhaps the most famous of the X-planes is the North American X-15 rocket plane. During its 199 test flights between...The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was the prototype for a supersonic bomber that was never built, but the two test...This NASA F-16XL-2 aircraft was used during 1995-96 for the Supersonic Laminar Flow Control project to demonstrate that airflow could...Taking the leap well beyond supersonic flight, a hypersonic X-43 aircraft reached a record-breaking speed of Mach 9.6, or nearly...This modified Northrop F-5E jet was used during 2003 for NASA's Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration program, a successful effort to...Originally designed as a supersonic interceptor for the Air Force, the YF-12A was a variant of Lockheed's A-12 reconnaissance plane....With Mach 1 and Mach 2 behind them, NACA engineers sought to expand on their research to fully understand the...This concept of an aircraft that could fly at supersonic speeds over land is being used by researchers, especially at...If human beings are ever to fly faster than the speed of sound from one side of the country to...Our ability to fly at supersonic speeds over land in civil aircraft depends on our ability to reduce the level...This future aircraft design concept for supersonic flight over land comes from the team led by the Lockheed Martin Corporation....The X-51A successfully made the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight to date off the southern California coast on May...NASA's X-43A research vehicle has screamed into the record books, demonstrating an air-breathing engine can fly at nearly 10 times...
