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NASA Test Pilot Prepares for Rehearsal Flight
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NASA test pilot Nils Larson walks around an F-15B research aircraft for a rehearsal flight supporting the agency’s Quesst mission at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The flight was part of a full-scale dress rehearsal for Phase 2 of the mission, which will eventually measure quiet sonic thumps generated by the X-59. The flight series helped NASA teams refine procedures and practice data collection ahead of future X-59 flights.
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Credit lineNASA Test Pilot Prepares for Rehearsal Flight. NASA/AFRC, 2025-06-03. Public domain. ID: AFRC2025-0091-21.
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