{"id":358159,"date":"2026-01-30T03:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/x-59-quesst-no-sonic-boom\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T03:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:16:19","slug":"why-the-x-59-quesst-will-be-the-1st-supersonic-aircraft-to-fly-without-a-sonic-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=358159","title":{"rendered":"Why The X-59 QueSST Will Be The 1st Supersonic Aircraft To Fly Without A Sonic Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2047988\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/x-59-lockheed-martin-new-era-supersonic-flight\/\" >NASA X-59 QueSST (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) is now flying<\/a><\/span> and soon will start test flights aimed at reducing the sonic boom to a thump for people on the ground. While this seeks to overcome one of the greatest barriers facing <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"167775\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/supersonic\/\"  >supersonic<\/a><\/span> flight, it is far from the only one. Sonic booms are often credited as the top reason for the failure of Concorde, although the reality is more complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The X-59 QueSST aims to be the first supersonic aircraft to reduce the &#8220;boom&#8221; to a &#8220;thumb&#8221; and overcome one of the great limitations.<\/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":[396,202,9067],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-nasa","category-supersonic-jet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358159","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=358159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358160,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358159\/revisions\/358160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}