NASA’s X-59 Sits on Ramp (AFRC2023-0198-05)

Autor:

NASA Headquarters / NASA/Steve Freeman

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https://czwiki.cz/b/d1d97

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Wikimedia Commons

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NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft sits on the ramp at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California during sunrise, shortly after completion of painting. With its unique design, including a 38-foot-long nose, the X-59 was built to demonstrate the ability to fly supersonic, or faster than the speed of sound, while reducing the typically loud sonic boom produced by aircraft at such speeds to a quieter sonic “thump”. 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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Public domain

Credit:

Tento mediální soubor byl katalogizován v centrále NASA amerického Národního úřadu pro letectví a kosmonautiku (NASA)pod Photo ID: AFRC2023-0198-05.

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