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NASA’s X-59 Begins Taxi Tests
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NASA’s X-59 Begins Taxi Tests

NASA / AFRC · 2025-07-10 · photograph (digital archive)

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NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft taxis across the runway during a low-speed taxi test at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, on July 10, 2025. The test marks the start of taxi tests and the last series of ground tests before first flight.

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NASAX-59Low Boom Flight DemonstratorQuesstTaxi TestLow Speed TaxiSupersonicMachSonic BoomQuiet Supersonic TechnologyX-planesFlight
Credit lineNASA’s X-59 Begins Taxi Tests. NASA/AFRC, 2025-07-10. Public domain. ID: AFRC2025-0112-06.
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