NASA is sharing footage of the X-59 tailplane installation process at Lockheed Martin’s Palmdale, California facility..
Lockheed Martin began producing parts for the X-59 in November 2018.
Lockheed Martin began producing parts for the X-59 in November 2018.
The tailplane installation allows the X-59 team to continue to perform final testing of the aircraft’s systems and wiring, SciTechDaily On April 16, this was reported. The aircraft is preparing for ground integration testing, including engine testing and ground testing.
X-59 aircraft – the heart of the mission named Quest – jointly developed by NASA and Lockheed Martin Corporation. Lockheed Martin began producing parts for the X-59 in November 2018.
The X-59 is 30.4m long, 9m wide and powered by a single jet engine. In operation, a single driver will control this vehicle. Its rated speed is expected to be Mach 1.4 – around 1,500 km/h – flying at an altitude of 16,700 m.
The X-59 is designed to demonstrate its ability to fly at supersonic speeds quietly. The mission is to turn a sonic boom (a loud explosion when an object moves faster than sound) into a small noise. The X-59 will fly over several communities in the United States to collect data on people’s reactions to sounds generated during supersonic flight. This data will be made available to US and international regulators.
Using Qusst, NASA wanted to demonstrate that the X-59 could fly faster than sound without creating the loud sonic booms that made supersonic commercial flights over land banned by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) (FAA ) banned in 1973.
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NASA has shared a video of the assembly process for the tail of the X-59 aircraft at the Lockheed Martin plant in Palmdale, California. Lockheed Martin has…
