![]() Instead, it’s more about what's happening on the ground than what's going on at 55,000-feet. In fact, NASA is even calling it a "Low-Boom Flight Demonstration Mission." But this plane isn't pushing the ragged edge of air travel like Yeager's X-1. The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology research aircraft is a single-seater with a unique design that'll reduce the boom down to a thump. ![]() Aside from military pilots and folks who were lucky enough to be a passenger on the Concorde - which itself retired almost 18 years ago - there's no opportunity for anyone to fly that fast.īut thanks to a brand new X-Plane (the government term for an experimental plane), that may be changing. It's been almost 74 years since Yeager's flight, and though plenty of aircraft can fly faster than the speed of sound today, vanishingly few people have experienced it. That was just 44 years after the Wright Brothers first took flight in Kitty Hawk, which is an astonishingly short period of time. XOn October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager's X-1 was the first human-piloted aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight. ![]()
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