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NASA’s X-59 Turns Up Power, Throttles Through Engine Tests
As part of the preparations for the X-59’s anticipated first flight this year, NASA and Lockheed Martin successfully conducted the engine...
Garth Calitz
Feb 122 min read
Boom Achieves Supersonic Flight
America's first civilian supersonic jet has broken the sound barrier in the historic Mojave airspace. On January 28, 2025, Boom's...
Garth Calitz
Jan 304 min read
Forty-Nine Years Ago Concorde Took First Comercial Flight
The initial scheduled supersonic passenger flights, Air France's Concorde F-BVFA and British Airways' Concorde G-BOAA, both took off at...
Garth Calitz
Jan 226 min read
Boom Supersonic XB-1 Take Its First Flight
Last week, the private aerospace company Boom Supersonic successfully completed the first flight of its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft, which...
Garth Calitz
Mar 27, 20242 min read
Skunk Works Rolls Out X-59, NASA's Newest X-Plane
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works rolled out the X-59, a unique experimental aircraft designed to quiet the sonic boom, at a ceremony in...
Garth Calitz
Jan 24, 20244 min read
Supersonic Passenger Flight May Be A Reality In the Near Future
This month marks the 20th anniversary of Concorde’s retirement and with it, a lengthy pause on regular, paying airline passengers, albeit...
Garth Calitz
Nov 1, 20236 min read
Tupolev Tu-144 - The Most Successful Failure in Aviation History
It is December 1968, and a truly ground-breaking airliner is about to take its first flight. It resembles a giant white dart, as...
Garth Calitz
Jul 5, 20239 min read
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