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Why commercial supersonic flights are still nearly impossible

Supersonic passenger jets once promised a world where crossing oceans felt as quick as a long lunch break, yet today the fastest commercial flights still cruise below the speed of sound. The ...
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Inside NASA’s X-59 Low-Boom Demonstrator

As the first major piloted NASA X-plane to fly in a generation and the first crewed, purpose-built U.S. high-speed research aircraft since the X-15 of the 1960s, the X-59 low-boom ...
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U.S. Supersonic Commercial Aircraft: Assessing NASA's High Speed Research Program

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