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Air Data News • Ricardo Meier

NASA X-59 reaches Mach 1.53 in new supersonic speed record

By Air Data News: Experimental aircraft completed six flights in four days as NASA expanded its flight envelope ahead of NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft reached Mach 1.53 during an intensive series of six flights in four days, setting a new speed record for the supersonic demonstrator developed to test quieter flight over land.

2026-10-12T08:45:36.549657-07:00