X-59: NASA's new X-Plane
from Military Aviation History
Published in 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V59ffvGBaiw In 2016, Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract to develop a new X-plane, with the goal of researching low-boom supersonic flight. The result - an aircraft now referred to as the X-59 - has now been completed, and will soon begin testing. But what is the X-59, and how will it impact the aerospace world?
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