4.2M views · 40K reactions | NASA and Lockheed Martin have reinvented aviation with the X-59 low-boom supersonic aircraft. And when it flies, they're hoping you won't even notice it. | CNET | Facebook

The emerging market for electric aircraft, including Urban Air Mobility vehicles, will feature cutting edge technology for aviation! NASA is helping to develop certification standards for these technologies through its first all-electric X-plane, the X-57 Maxwell. Read More: www.NASA.gov/X57 Watch the rest of the video: https://youtu.be/Bhd9KH2Vv3A NASA Langley Research Center | NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center

NASA’s X-57 Maxwell all electric aircraft has power! 🔌 ✈️ With the successful installation of two 400-pound lithium-ion battery packs in the cabin of the plane. The X-57 project is the agency’s first all-experimental electric aircraft, and an early part of NASA’s work to develop sustainable aviation solutions. Instead of aviation fuel, it will use commercial, rechargeable, lithium-ion batteries for the energy its motors need for flight. The X-57 project team repeatedly tested the batteries to e

This rare footage shows NASA testing the X-43A, an experimental hypersonic aircraft built to explore extreme-speed flight. Because scramjet engines cannot start from rest, the vehicle was carried under a B-52, boosted to hypersonic speed by a rocket, and only then ignited its own engine. | SpaceEve

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It's the 20th anniversary of the X-43A record speed flight! ⭐ NASA’s X-43A experimental aircraft set the world speed record for a jet-powered aircraft 20 years ago on Nov. 16, 2004. The flight originated from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The B-52B carried a Pegasus rocket under its wing, and the X-43A was attached to the rocket’s nose. Once in position over the Pacific Ocean, the rocket air-launched and its engine fired, and once in position, the X-43A’s engine