NASA's silent X-59 jet can break sound barrier with almost no noise, take passengers from NYC to London in 3½ hours

NASA’s sleek and quiet supersonic jet — which is built to reach speeds of up to 925 mph without producing a loud sonic boom— soared across the California desert in its first test flight on Tuesday, bringing speedy global trips one step closer.

The X-59 jet, dubbed the “son of Concorde,” carried out its first flight at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, with the test keeping to a low 230 mph and altitude of 12,000 feet for its first display.

The X-59’s will eventually hit 925 mph, which is Mach 1.4, and fly at 55,000 feet in the air , more than twice as high and nearly twice as fast as conventional airline jets, all while only causing a tiny boom, which would revolutionize commercial air travel.

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