🎥 ON THE RAILS: Video shows NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic jet in flight
Video posted by Mario Nawfal on X shows NASA's experimental X-59 flying past, with a second jet appearing later in the clip. Hood County Express has not confirmed where or when the video was filmed, or who shot it.
The X-59 began its first cross-country trip last week. AVweb reports, citing flight records, that it left Edwards Air Force Base in California on Wednesday, Oct. 28, with stops in El Paso and Fort Worth. It then left Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth at 9:48 a.m. CDT on Thursday, Oct. 29, and landed in Birmingham, Alabama, at 11:03 a.m.
The aircraft is headed to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ahead of NASA's MAX POWER aerospace exhibition and air show there on Nov. 7-8. It set out one year to the day after its first flight on Oct. 28, 2025.
NASA says the X-59 has flown 40 more times since then and reached Mach 1.53 and altitudes above 56,000 feet. Its long nose and other design features are meant to keep shock waves from combining into a conventional sonic boom.
NASA's next step is acoustic testing, then flights over selected communities to collect public responses.
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Photo Credit: Video posted by Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) on X; original videographer not identified. Reporting: AVweb, NASA. https://avweb.com/aviation-news/nasa-x-59-begins-xc-flight-to-florida/
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