NASA’s External Vision System Is Ready For Low-boom Supersonic X-59
Credit: NASA
Supersonic aircraft are slender, to minimize wave drag, but design for low sonic boom takes slenderness to a new extreme. NASA’s X-59 QueSST low-boom flight demonstrator has a wingspan of just 29.5 ft. but is 96.7 ft. long. And half that length is the nose, which is carefully shaped to control the...
Subscription Required
This content requires a subscription to one of the Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) bundles.
Schedule a demo today to find out how you can access this content and similar content related to your area of the global aviation industry.
Already an AWIN subscriber? Login
Did you know? Aviation Week has won top honors multiple times in the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards, the business-to-business media equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes.