NASA's Quiet Supersonic Plane Builds Momentum Through 25th Flight
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NASA's Quiet Supersonic Plane Builds Momentum Through 25th Flight
After 25 test flights, NASA's X-59 quiet supersonic experimental aircraft steadily continues to pass performance marks set by its team. This successful run of tests has the aircraft on a path toward a new phase later this year, where NASA will evaluate the sonic thumps the X-59 is designed to make when flying faster than the speed of sound. The X-59's 25th flight took off from NASA's Armstrong Fl
After 25 closed test flights, NASA's X-59 experimental aircraft validated all its flight characteristics.The US Space Agency is about to launch the decisive phase of its Quesst mission: measuring its sound footprint to blow up a regulatory lock over fifty years old.
NASA's X-59 enters a crucial new phase of its Quesst program. After 25 test flights, the experimental aircraft developed with Lockheed Martin must soon demonstrate that it can actually cross the sound wall without producing the powerful bang characteristic of supersonic devices. Mach 1,2 reaches ... Read more Like KultureGeek on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter Don't forget to download our free iAddict app for iPhone and iPad (link App Store) …
NASA's X-59 experimental aircraft completed its 25th test flight at Mach 1.2, before entering the phase that must confirm that a flight faster than sound can produce, on the ground, only a discrete rumbling rather than a bang.
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