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NASA Test Pilot Checks Out Painted X-59
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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 aircraft’s delta wing; a requirement for quiet supersonic flight. The X-59 is the centerpiece of NASA’s Quesst mission, which seeks to solve one of the major barriers to supersonic flight over land, currently banned in the United States, by making sonic booms quieter.
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Credit lineNASA Test Pilot Checks Out Painted X-59. NASA/HQ, 2023-12-12. Public domain. ID: AFRC2023-0198-14.
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