Lockheed Martin To Build NASA’s Low-Boom Supersonic X-Plane

Credit: Artist's concept of X-plane: NASA
NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to build an X-plane to show that sonic booms can be reduced to a level low enough to enable the ban on civil supersonic flight over land to be lifted. The Low Boom Flight Demonstrator is scheduled to fly in 2021 and will be used to gather community-response data to...
Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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