The race for quiet supersonic flight takes a leap forward with NASA's X-59. But what challenges remain before it becomes a ...

Lockheed Martin is in the final stages of developing and delivering the X-59 Quesst. It's a supersonic aircraft that will be headed to NASA, and it promises to upend the supersonic aircraft industry.

The craft is part of the US space agency's mission to find a way for ordinary planet travel to become much faster. Find out more here.

It's been a long time coming, but the first flight of the X-59 experimental aircraft, made by NASA and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works as a means to prove that quiet supersonic flight is possible, is more ...

Since 1973, the U.S. FAA has quieted the skies by banning supersonic flight over populated areas in order to prevent sonic booms. Commercial air travel has thus been limited to less than 660 miles per ...