NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Jet Is Ready for Its Biggest Test Yet | The X-59 is preparing to fly faster than the speed of sound for the first time.

>After months of test flights, NASA’s X-59 aircraft is gearing up for its biggest challenge yet: breaking the sound barrier without producing a loud, thunder-like clap.

>The experimental aircraft is set to embark on a new round of test flights this month, which will include its first time flying faster than the speed of sound, NASA recently [announced](https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/armstrong/nasas-x-59-prepares-for-first-supersonic-flight/). The team behind X-59 reviewed the aircraft’s progress throughout the past several months and gave it the green light for the next series of test flights.

>“What comes next is the first time this one-of-a-kind aircraft will fly supersonic,” Cathy Bahm, project manager for NASA’s Low Boom Flight Demonstrator, said in a statement. “We are starting toward the mission conditions test point that X-59 was designed for.”

Sweet, only about 30 years until most of us can actually afford to fly on it, IF anything ever comes of this. Can’t see aircraft manufacturers building new aircraft in the current and foreseeable future, easier and more profitable to just rehash their current planes….again and again

Neat. NASA was doing similar tests with an F-18 8 years back. I guess it went well because I don’t remember hearing anything.

https://www.nasa.gov/quiet-supersonic-flights-2018-qsf18/

Judging by its shape it won’t do a “boom”, but it will generate a high pitched “bzzzzzzzzz” so annoying, people will ask back the “boom”.