NASA is equipped for the challenge. Before its transition to NASA in 1958, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ...

NASA announced a successful test of its X-59 aircraft at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif., that could lead to ...

NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...

During the dry run at NASA Armstrong, an F-15B aircraft, serving as a substitute for the X-59, flew faster than the speed of ...

Thirty-five-foot drop tests gauge how air taxi structures and batteries would withstand the impact of a crash.

NASA's X-59 is taking slow steps towards supersonic flight, beginning taxiing tests at US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, ...

NASA’s X-59, a 99-foot experimental aircraft developed with Lockheed Martin, has entered the taxi test phase at California’s ...

The X-59 jet, dubbed the “son of Concorde,” is one step closer to takeoff after the experimental aircraft taxied on a ...

An aircraft body modeled after an air taxi with weighted test dummies inside is being prepared for a drop test by researchers ...

NASA test pilot Nils Larson walks around an F-15B research aircraft for a rehearsal flight supporting the agency's Quesst ...

NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft has officially begun taxi tests, marking the first time this one-of-a-kind ...

NASA has taken a major step toward quiet supersonic flight with the official start of taxi tests for its experimental X-59 ...