{"id":309552,"date":"2025-10-30T15:29:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/?p=1423336"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:29:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:29:57","slug":"nasas-supersonic-plane-takes-to-the-skies-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=309552","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s supersonic plane takes to the skies for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI2NDAiIGhlaWdodD0iMzYxIj48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIj48YW5pbWF0ZSBhdHRyaWJ1dGVOYW1lPSJmaWxsIiB2YWx1ZXM9InJnYmEoMTUzLDE1MywxNTMsMC41KTtyZ2JhKDE1MywxNTMsMTUzLDAuMSk7cmdiYSgxNTMsMTUzLDE1MywwLjUpIiBkdXI9IjJzIiByZXBlYXRDb3VudD0iaW5kZWZpbml0ZSIgLz48L3JlY3Q+PC9zdmc+\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image wp-image-1423338 wp-post-1423336\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" data-public-id=\"Australian Aviation\/Lockheed_Martin_X59_First_Flight_1_mpyavy.jpg\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto\" data-version=\"1761802064\" data-responsive=\"1\" data-size=\"1200 677\" data-delivery=\"upload\" onload=\";window.CLDBind?CLDBind(this):null;\" data-cloudinary=\"lazy\" \/>Lockheed Martin said the X-59 performed \u201cexactly as planned\u201d on its test flight from its Skunk Works facility in Palmdale to NASA&#8217;s Armstrong Flight Research Centre in\u00a0Edwards, California, this week. It follows taxi testing in Palmdale earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed Martin said the X-59 performed \u201cexactly as planned\u201d on its test flight from its Skunk Works facility in Palmdale to NASA&#8217;s Armstrong Flight Research Centre in\u00a0Edwards, California, this week. It follows taxi testing in Palmdale earlier this yea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,312,1711,471],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-309552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-aviation","category-innovation","category-news","tag-australian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309553,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309552\/revisions\/309553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}