The U.S. Olympic bobsled team borrowed Honda’s wind tunnel for test runs

With that in mind, it makes sense that the U.S. bobsled team worked with Honda to help them achieve their best times on the ...
Matt Guthmiller on MSN

Why test pilots wear parachutes in a $70 million jet

Before the world’s largest purpose built business jet ever carries a passenger, it is pushed to extremes most travelers would ...
New Atlas

Anduril's pilotless fighter jet completes its first test flight

A few days ago, California-based defense tech firm Anduril concluded the first test flights of its semi-autonomous Fury fighter jet without a pilot in the cockpit. Oh wait, there's actually no cockpit ...
CNN

Business jet that crashed in Michigan was flown after pilots chose not to wait for a test pilot, NTSB says

The pilots in a deadly business jet crash in Michigan were performing a test flight themselves, following repairs, instead of waiting for a test pilot, when the aircraft plunged into woods near ...
BGR

NASA's X-59 Supersonic Jet Broke The Sound Barrier On Its First Test Flight

The "quiet" supersonic aircraft developed by NASA and Lockheed Martin has completed its first flight in California. Dubbed the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology Aircraft, or Quesst, it is a sleek ...
KOB 4

Sandia National Labs to test rocket sled Tuesday

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Labs will be testing their rocket sled for about an hour Tuesday morning in Albuquerque. According to the Labs, all of the hazards associated with that test are ...
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Sandia National Laboratories to conduct test at Kirtland Air Force Base on Tuesday

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – People near Kirtland Air Force Base may hear a loud noise or see smoke or dust on Tuesday. Sandia National Laboratories will conduct a rocket sled test from 11 a.m. to noon ...
The Hill

NASA tests low-volume supersonic jet that could slash air travel time

NASA and Lockheed Martin debuted their first test run of a low-volume supersonic jet that’s expected to allow air passengers to travel faster than the speed of sound. The X-59 aircraft soared Tuesday ...
New York Post

NASA’s silent X-59 jet can break sound barrier with almost no noise, take passengers from NYC to London in 3½ hours

NASA’s sleek and quiet supersonic jet — which is built to reach speeds of up to 925 mph without producing a loud sonic boom— soared across the California desert in its first test flight on Tuesday, ...
Wired

NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Jet Takes Flight

About an hour after sunrise over the Mojave Desert of Southern California, NASA’s newest experimental supersonic jet took to the skies for the first time on Tuesday. The X-59 Quesst (Quiet SuperSonic ...
Fox News

NASA's 'quiet' supersonic jet completes first flight in potential breakthrough for commercial air travel

A new "quiet" supersonic X-59 jet designed to revolutionize air travel successfully completed its first test flight, Lockheed Martin announced this week. The sleek, needle-point aircraft built for ...
Seeking Alpha

NASA's quiet supersonic jet completes first test flight

The X-59 quiet supersonic jet, built for NASA by Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), successfully completed its first test flight in California on Tuesday, paving the way for faster commercial air travel. The ...