NASA’s X-59 Moves Closer to Runway

 

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NASA’s X-59 aircraft is parked near the runway at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California

https://www.nasa.gov/aeroresearch/nasa-x-59-moves-closer-to-runway

The X-59 aircraft—the centerpiece of NASA’s Quesst mission—is designed to demonstrate the ability to fly supersonic, or faster than Mach 1, while reducing the loud sonic boom to a quiet sonic thump. NASA will then fly the X-59 over several communities to gather data on human responses to the sound generated during supersonic flight. NASA will deliver that data set to U.S. and international regulators to possibly enable commercial supersonic flight over land.  

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