NASA and Lockheed Martin's experimental aircraft stops in Fort Worth
Nov 13, 2026
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Well, what we're doing is showing that you can,
for the first time, that you can build
from scratch a shaped sonic boom aircraft,
that's what we call it, a low boom aircraft
that'll go supersonic.
We're designed to go Mach 1.4 at 55,000 feet
and make a sonic boom that you'll barely notice
on the ground.
Right now, our transit times have been limited by the sonic boom.
For decades, our ability to traverse the globe suddenly got faster
and faster over time as
we got into aviation and commercial aviation in general,
proceeded from propeller technology
into jet technology, but that sonic boom became
a speed limit that we weren't able to overcome
and really prevented the world from becoming an even smaller place.
We're asked by NASA at the end of our flight test campaign to go
and support their Max
Power event in Florida at the Kennedy Space Center
and so a couple of weeks ago we put
together the plan for how to ferry the aircraft across the country
and one of the stops that
made sense for us to get there was here in Fort Worth.
Obviously we've got all of the infrastructure
and support that Lockheed Martin brings to
the table.
You know, the designer and producer of the aircraft,
so we have all this infrastructure
here that's ready to make sure we had a successful deployment.

