NASA and Lockheed Martin’s X-59 completes first flight

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works division and NASA have conducted the first flight of the X-59, an experimental supersonic jet designed to reduce the deafening “boom” associated with breaking the sound barrier. The aircraft took off from Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, and landed safely at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, confirming […]

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