As such, during the recent tests, NASA staged an F-15D just 47 feet (14 meters) from the X-59 to "confirm there's compatibility between the two aircraft, even at close proximity," Lin said.

Scientists recorded sonic booms created by NASA's F/A-18 and F-15D jets for use in the agency's flight test plan for the X-59 Quesst "quiet" supersonic jet. Skip to main content.

A new video shows a cockpit view of a Nasa pilot refuelling his F-15D fighter plane while mid-flight. Why does the space agency have a fleet of fighter planes? They call them ‘chase planes’.

NASA has developed special probes that will fly aboard F-15B jets trailing closely behind its X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet in order to measure the shock waves it produces.

A mid-air refuelling manoeuvre is impressive enough to watch from outside the cockpit. Now a new Nasa video shows just what it's like to experience the feat from inside an F-15D Eagle fighter jet.

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US fighter pilots are having trouble breathing and NASA has been asked to look into it. Over the next few months, test pilots will spend 160 flight hours carrying out a series of exercises to help ...

A new video shows a cockpit view of a Nasa pilot refuelling his F-15D fighter plane while mid-flight. Why does the space agency have a fleet of fighter planes? T. They call them ‘chase planes’.

NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic jet undergoing electromagnetic interference (EMI) testing at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California alongside one of the agency's F-15D research aircraft.