Sonic...thump? Langley scientists excited as supersonic jet hits flight line
Breaking the sound barrier will get a lot quieter, should NASA's X-59 low-boom design get the thumbs up from federal regulators in the coming years.
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Breaking the sound barrier will get a lot quieter, should NASA's X-59 low-boom design get the thumbs up from federal regulators in the coming years.
Preparations have been ongoing for more than a decade involving research of quiet supersonic technology.
The NASA/Lockheed Martin X-59 supersonic research aircraft recently was removed from the jig and is undergoing testing for final assembly.
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Nasa completes preliminary design review of QueSST aircraft design Share 26 June 2017 Nasa has completed the preliminary design review (PDR) of its Quiet Supersonic Transport (QueSST) aircraft design, thereby achieving a major milestone towards developing a supersonic passenger jet that can travel over land. QueSST is the initial design stage of Nasa's planned Low Boom Flight Demonstration (LBFD) experimental airplane, which is also called as an X-plane. The QueSST design can help LBFD aircraft to achieve its mission objectives, which include flying at supersonic speeds, but creating a soft '...