NASA’s X-59 Quesst Aircraft Goes Supersonic for the First Time, Trading a Boom for a Quiet Thump
Photo credit: NASA / Lori Losey Lifting off from Edwards Air Force Base at 11:08 a.m. PDT on June 5, NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” Less guided the X-59 into the skies above the Mojave Desert. Eighty-one minutes later the aircraft returned to the runway after crossing the speed of sound for the first time. [...]
Photo credit: NASA / Lori Losey Lifting off from Edwards Air Force Base at 11:08 a.m. PDT on June 5, NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” Less guided the X-59 into the skies above the Mojave Desert. Eighty-one minutes later the aircraft returned to the runway after crossing the speed of sound for the first time. [...]
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