NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft began its 1-hr. 7-min. first flight on Oct. 28 upon lifting off from U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
Credit: Carla Thomas/NASA
As the first major piloted NASA X-plane to fly in a generation and the first crewed, purpose-built U.S. high-speed research aircraft since the X-15 of the 1960s, the X-59 low-boom demonstrator is the agency’s 21st-century aeronautics flagship. Aimed at collecting real-world acoustic data that could...
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