"NASA Unveils $247 Million Supersonic Jet for London to New York in 3.5 Hours"

NASA has unveiled the X-59, dubbed the 'son of Concorde', a 100-foot-long supersonic aircraft capable of cruising at 937 miles per hour without producing a loud sonic boom. The aircraft's design aims to reduce the noise of sonic booms, with a thin, tapered nose and an 'eXternal Vision System' replacing the forward-facing window in the cockpit. Developed by Lockheed Martin, the X-59 is part of NASA's Quesst mission to gather data for reconsidering rules that ban commercial supersonic flight over land, with test flights scheduled for later this year.