NASA's X-59 Experimental Aircraft Reaches Supersonic Milestone for Quiet Flight Testing
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Nicolas Cholula
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NASA's X-59 experimental aircraft has reached a key milestone by flying at Mach 1.4 (about 924 mph) and an altitude of 55,000 feet — the conditions required for its future quiet supersonic flights. The aircraft still needs months of performance testing, after which NASA's Quesst mission will fly it over U.S. communities to gather data on public perception of the quiet sonic thump it produces at supersonic speeds.
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· 3 pulledNASA's X-59 experimental aircraft reached a major milestone Friday, June 12, flying Mach 1.4 (about 924 mph) and an altitude of 55,000 feet, the conditions required for the aircraft to make future flights critical to its mission.
The X-59 still has months of performance testing ahead, but after those are complete, NASA's Quesst mission will fly the aircraft over several U.S. communities to collect data on public perception of the quiet sonic thump it will make at supersonic speeds.
Those community overflights will include flights at Mach 1.4 and 55,000 feet.
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