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NASA Test Pilot Checks Out Painted X-59
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NASA Test Pilot Checks Out Painted X-59

NASA / HQ · 2023-12-12 · photograph (digital archive)

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NASA test pilot Nils Larson gets an initial look at the painted X-59 as it sits on the ramp at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. Larson, one of three test pilots training to fly the X-59 inspects the side of the 38-foot-long nose; a primary design feature to the X-59’s purpose of demonstrating the ability to fly supersonic, or faster than sound, without creating a loud sonic boom.

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NASAX-59Low Boom Flight DemonstratorQuesstSupersonicMachSonic BoomQuiet Supersonic TechnologyX-planesFlightAeronauticsLockheed Martin
Credit lineNASA Test Pilot Checks Out Painted X-59. NASA/HQ, 2023-12-12. Public domain. ID: AFRC2023-0198-07.
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