NASA’s Quiet Supersonic X-59 Jet Makes Historic First Flight – Could Halve Air Travel Time
A Historic First Flight After years of development and delays, the X-59 QueSST (Quiet Supersonic Technology) research aircraft finally took to the skies and “successfully completed its first flight” on Tuesday morning, Oct. 28 news.lockheedmartin.com reuters.com. The test took place at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, with NASA test pilot Nils Larson at the controls reuters.com. The single-seat X-59 took off just after sunrise and landed safely about an hour later at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, following a planned route toward Edwards Air Force Base accompanied by a chase plane reuters.com reuters.com. About 200 aerospace workers