Tight Schedule For NASA’s X-59 Supersonic Noise Certification Flights

Credit: NASA
For an X-plane, NASA’s X-59 QueSST supersonic low-boom flight demonstrator is under unusual schedule pressure. Industry needs data from the aircraft’s first community-acceptance flights by 2024 if it is to stay on track to establish long-awaited noise standards permitting supersonic flight over land...

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