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Mechanical technician Dan Pitts prepares a nine percent scale model of Lockheed Martin’s Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) X-plane preliminary design for its first high-speed wind tunnel tests at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Credits: NASA

NASA Wind Tunnel Tests Lockheed Martin’s X-Plane Design for a Quieter Supersonic Jet

February 24, 2017 Kay Whatley

By J.D. Harrington (NASA HQ), Jan Wittry (Glenn Research Center), and Erica Turner (Lockheed Martin Communications) Supersonic passenger airplanes are another step closer to reality as NASA and Lockheed Martin begin the first high-speed wind tunnel […]

This is an artist’s concept of a possible Low Boom Flight Demonstration Quiet Supersonic Transport (QueSST) X-plane design. The award of a preliminary design contract is the first step towards the possible return of supersonic passenger travel – but this time quieter and more affordable. Credit: Lockheed Martin.

NASA Begins Work to Build a Quieter Supersonic Passenger Jet

February 29, 2016 Kay Whatley

Released by J.D. Harrington (NASA HQ), Kathy Barnstorff (Langley Research Center). Edited by Sarah Ramsey The return of supersonic passenger air travel is one step closer to reality with NASA’s award of a contract for the preliminary design […]

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UFOs: New Documentary Series Spotlights Legendary North Carolina Brown Mountain Lights

June 22, 2020

While the Brown Mountain Lights have managed to elude spectators, researchers, scientists and curious-minded tourists for almost a century, the phenomena has yet again sparked the interest of a larger audience. This time, the ghost […]

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The Strange-ness: Mountainside Ten Commandments

July 7, 2016

Deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains lies the town of Murphy NC. The mountains near Murphy are home to a 200-acre Bible-themed park and its giant Ten Commandments representation. Visitors are invited to walk up Burger Mountain past five-foot letters […]

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It Might be Bigfoot

June 1, 2021

By Donna Campbell Smith I believe in the existence of bigfoot. My interest is rooted in stories Daddy told when I was a young person. He listened to ‘talk radio” at night and he’d relate […]