SOFREP NASA and Lockheed Martin successfully completed the first test flight of the X-59, a supersonic jet designed to fly faster than sound without producing the loud “sonic boom” that has long restricted high-speed air travel over land.
The compact, 100-foot aircraft took off Tuesday from Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, and landed safely at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center after a short subsonic flight intended to test its structural integrity.
The X-59, built to generate only a “gentle thump” instead of a boom, represents a key step toward reintroducing commercial supersonic travel decades after the Concorde was retired in 2003. If successful, the technology could allow future flights between cities such as New York and Los Angeles in about half the current time.
A supersonic jet plane designed to make very little noise took flight for the first time this week, in what some say could be the first step toward much faster commercial travel. pic.twitter.com/4hvup4Glim
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 31, 2025
NASA said the test marks progress toward quieter, faster air travel that could eventually reshape global aviation regulations.
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