NASA and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works have teamed up to develop the X-59 QueSST – an X-plane that uses low-boom technology designed to replace the famous sonic boom with a quiet thump, as Khalem Chapman explains
The programme patch worn by teams working on the pioneering X-59 (below) mission
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Supersonic passenger flight could make a quiet return if NASA’s Low-Boom Flight Demonstration (LBFD) successfully revives capabilities that were lost with Concorde’s retirement 17 years ago.
