On January 12, 2024, in a big event at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works in California, the much-anticipated NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Research Aircraft was presented. A plane that’s on the cusp of making supersonic travel over land possible. The X-59 was developed under the Quesst mission. The two main objectives of the Quesst mission are to: 1) Design and construct NASA’s X-59 research aircraft with technology that causes a sonic boom to be heard as a soft thump to people on the ground. 2) Fly the X-59 over a number of American communities in order to collect data on how … Continue reading X-59 Unveiled: The Supersonic Aircraft Set to Make Sonic Booms a Whisper of the Past