When aircraft break the sound barrier, they produce shock waves that reverberate through the surrounding air and produce the ...

NASA tested a model of its X-66 plane inside a wind tunnel at the space agency's Langley Research Center. It could be the ...

Feature Sitting in the hangar of Lockheed Martin's famous Palmdale, California Skunk Works facility is one of the oddest ...

SEE ALSO: NASA reveals its X-plane. It will fly over the U.S. at extreme speeds. The model, with a six-foot wingspan, shows the major X-66 innovation: a "transonic truss-braced wing," wherein ...

NASA will use 30 ground recording stations to monitor the sound produced by the X-59 QueSST experimental aircraft. Learn more ...

The agency said Thursday the new technology, a shock-sensing probe, will be instrumental in validating computer models and ...

For some reason, that's the picture that popped into my head when seeing NASA's X-66 experimental aircraft undergoing wind tunnel testing. The X-66 has been in the news before, but given how it's ...

NASA will soon test advancements made on a key tool for measuring the unique "sonic thumps" that its quiet supersonic X-59 ...

Such a reality will be made possible thanks to a program called Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) and a prototype aircraft the agency refers to as the X-59. NASA has been working on the QueSST ...