NASA and Lockheed Martin’s weird-looking X-59 plane is scheduled to fly in early 2023 and is designed to quietly break sound barriers rather than create giant sonic booms.
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January 3, 2023
Composite image of what NASA’s X-59 plane looks like when silently trying to break through the sound barrier lockheed martin
NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft is scheduled to take to the skies in early 2023 to see if it can break the sound barrier without creating a giant sonic boom. If this works, it could lead to a revival of commercial airliners that can travel faster than the speed of sound, as the Concorde once did.
Taking off from Palmdale, Calif., the X-59 is built by Lockheed Martin…
