NASA and Lockheed Martin’s strange-looking X-59 airplane is ready to fly early in 2023, and it’s designed to interrupt the sound barrier quietly somewhat than creating an enormous sonic growth
Technology
3 January 2023
A composite picture exhibiting what NASA’s X-59 airplane will appear to be when it tries to interrupt the sound barrier quietly Lockheed Martin
NASA’s experimental X-59 airplane is scheduled to take to the skies early in 2023 to see if it may break the sound barrier with out creating an enormous sonic growth. If it really works, it might result in the return of business airliners that may journey sooner than the velocity of sound, as Concorde used to do.
The X-59, which can take off from Palmdale, California, is constructed by Lockheed Martin …