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Created: 2025-07-18 15:08:13 UTC

🚨 🇺🇸 BREAKING — The “Son of Concorde” is ALIVE

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works and NASA have kicked off taxi tests for the X-59 — a supersonic jet that flies faster than sound without a sonic boom.

🦨🤫 This futuristic aircraft could make London to New York in under X hours — and you won’t even hear it coming.

➡️ First flight set for later this year
➡️ Public overflight tests coming in 2026

This could change the way the world travels — forever.

![](https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1946225393763041280/pu/img/umwYwVGg6keMHLVb.jpg)

XXXXX engagements

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