NASA’s X-59 Program
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Presented Online
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Presented Online
Can you imagine going faster than the speed of sound during your next flight? When taking a Concorde, that's exactly what passengers would do! But since the retirement of that famous aircraft in 2003, there hasn't been a commercial aircraft that flies faster than the speed of sound. NASA is trying to change that. The Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST will test technology to fly faster and quieter, and data gathered from the X-59 will pave the way for commercial supersonic flight over land. Join Nils Larson, the lead NASA test pilot for X-59, Alexandra Loubeau, an acoustics engineer, and Ray Castner, the propulsion lead for the X-59, as they discuss this program and answer your questions about supersonic flight.
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