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Air Force tanker aircraft design aviation technology blended wing body JetZero NASA X-59 Quesst program sonic boom supersonic flight

Cleared Direct Jun 2, 2026

JetZero and the blended wing body that could retire the tube-and-wing airplane after seventy years

JetZero is building a full-scale blended wing body demonstrator funded by the U.S. Air Force that could cut fuel burn by 30%.

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Cleared Direct Apr 27, 2026

The NASA X-fifty-nine Quesst and the sonic thump that could rewrite the rules of supersonic flight

NASA's X-59 Quesst aircraft aims to replace the supersonic flight ban with a noise standard by proving sonic booms can be reduced to a quiet thump.

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