Key Review Clears X-59 For Final Assembly

Credit: NASA
LOS ANGELES—NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) research aircraft remains on track to be structurally complete in 2020 and make its first flight in 2021, according to the agency, which conducted a major management review on Dec 12. The X-59 is the first purpose-designed piloted NASA X...
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