NASA and Lockheed Martin successfully conducted the first test flight of the X-59, a quiet supersonic jet designed to reduce the sonic boom to a gentle thump. The flight over California marks a major step toward faster, quieter commercial air travel that could one day cut coast-to-coast flight times in half in the United States

A supersonic jet plane designed to make very little noise took flight for the first time this week, cruising over the southern California desert just after sunrise in what could be the first step toward much faster commercial travel, according to NASA . NASA and the US weapons and aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin successfully tested a jet Tuesday that is capable of travelling faster than the speed of sound. Aircraft have been capable of flying at superson

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