{"id":49150,"date":"2026-11-05T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/the-x-70-is-nasas-next-experimental-x-plane\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:35:00","slug":"the-x-70-is-nasas-next-experimental-x-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/the-x-70-is-nasas-next-experimental-x-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"The X-70 is NASA\u2019s next experimental X-plane"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andrew Liszewski<\/p>\n

is a senior reporter who\u2019s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid.<\/p>\n

Yesterday NASA announced the latest addition to its X-series<\/a> of experimental aircraft that have included the Bell X-1 that first broke the sound barrier nearly 80 years ago, and the more recent X-59 quiet supersonic demonstrator<\/a>. The new X-70 Fractal is designed to be a \u201chigh-performance, highly adaptable research platform\u201d that NASA can use as a testbed for the development and testing of next-generation aviation technologies.<\/p>\n

The agency only released an AI-generated image of the X-70 shrouded in smoke and shadows, but confirmed several of the plane\u2019s capabilities. It will be a crewed aircraft with a cruising speed of Mach .75 that can reach altitudes of up to 45,000 feet and will provide an \u201coperational range exceeding about 1,726 miles.\u201d The X-70 will be able to carry up to 2,000 pounds of experimental equipment either inside or outside the aircraft, and will feature \u201cadvanced, rapidly reconfigurable flight-control technology that will allow NASA to explore aircraft maneuverability in ways never before demonstrated in crewed flight.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe X-70 Fractal gives NASA a crewed,<\/p>\n

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Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who\u2019s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Yesterday NASA announced the latest addition to its X-series of experimental aircraft that have included the Bell X-1 that first broke the sound barrier nearly 80<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":49151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36,2923,108,327,336,405,357],"class_list":["post-49150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-mixtv","tag-nasa","tag-news","tag-science","tag-space","tag-tech","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}