NASA and Lockheed Resurrect Supersonic Commercial Flight … Maybe

January 16, 2024Posted inAviation
NASA’s X-59 aircraft was rolled out on January 12, 2024 at 4 PM EST as part of NASA’s Quesst mission. The X-59 is an experimental aircraft designed to reduce the sonic boom to a small thump. It’s hoped that the X-59 could fly at 1.4 times the speed of sound, or 925 miles per hour. Photo: NASA

It’s been a quarter of a century since commercial passengers could fly to American destinations at beyond the speed of sound.  That was on the iconic Concorde, a joint French and English venture initiated in 1954 with first commercial flight in 1976.