Supersonic commercial flights are on the road to making a comeback, decades after the Concorde took to the skies and then witnessed a spectacular fall that was a mix of commercial as well as technical failures. Earlier this month, NASA lifted the covers from the X-59, a supersonic one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft. Developed in collaboration with Lockheed Martin, the ‘quiet’ X-59 could pave the way for, as they describe it, ‘a new generation of commercial aircraft that can travel faster
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