NASA X-59

Cleared Direct Oct 14, 2026

The NASA X-59 QueSST, the Sonic Boom Science Behind Its Needle Nose, and the Community Response Tests That Could Reopen Overland Supersonic Routes for the First Time Since Nineteen Seventy-Three

NASA's X-59 QueSST is actively flying with a 75 PLdB boom target - potentially ending the 1973 ban on overland supersonic flight in the U.S.

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Cleared Direct Oct 11, 2026

The NASA X-59 QueSST, the Shaped Sonic Boom, and the Fifty-Year-Old FAA Rule That May Finally Be Ready to Change

NASA's X-59 QueSST aircraft is designed to prove that shaped sonic boom technology can produce sound quiet enough to overturn a 50-year FAA ban on overland supersonic flight.

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Cleared Direct Oct 8, 2026

The NASA X-59 QueSST, the Sonic Thump Instead of a Sonic Boom, and the Overland Supersonic Flight Rule That Has Not Changed Since 1973

NASA's X-59 QueSST is building the evidence case to replace a 50-year FAA ban on overland supersonic flight with a measurable acoustic performance standard.

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Cleared Direct Sep 30, 2026

The NASA X-59 QueSST, the Shaped Sonic Boom, and the Lockheed Skunk Works Aircraft That Could End Fifty Years of the Overland Supersonic Ban

NASA's X-59 QueSST has demonstrated shaped sonic boom technology that could challenge the FAA's 53-year overland supersonic ban with real community overflight data.

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Cleared Direct Sep 7, 2026

The NASA X-59 QueSST, the Fifty-Year Overland Supersonic Ban, and the Engineering Bet That Could Rewrite the Rules of Commercial Flight

NASA's X-59 QueSST flew for the first time in January 2024, targeting a sonic boom quiet enough to rewrite the 50-year-old U.S. overland supersonic ban.

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Cleared Direct Aug 28, 2026

The NASA X-59, the Quiet Supersonic Demonstrator, and the Rule Change That Could Open the American Sky to Supersonic Flight Again

NASA's X-59 QueSST completed its first flight on January 24, 2024, launching a program aimed at replacing the 50-year US ban on supersonic overland civil flight with a noise-based standard.

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Cleared Direct Aug 12, 2026

The NASA X-59 and the Quiet Supersonic Bet to Turn the Sonic Boom Into a Thump

NASA's X-59 aims to soften the sonic boom into a quiet 'thump' and overturn the 1973 ban on overland supersonic flight.

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Cleared Direct Jul 30, 2026

NASA's X Fifty-Nine, the Quiet Supersonic Demonstrator Built to Turn the Boom Into a Thump and Overturn a Fifty-Year-Old Ban

NASA's X-59 aims to replace the sonic boom with a quiet 'thump' and overturn a 50-year U.S. ban on supersonic flight over land.

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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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