NASA marked the anniversary of the 50-year ban on commercial supersonic travel over land last week highlighting the progress of its “Quesst” mission, which includes plans to fly a Mach 1.4 X-59 test aircraft this year to pave the way for noise trials. Those noise trials involving the X-plane will be used to gather data that could ultimately make supersonic operations over land possible again.
Lockheed Martin, in concert with NASA, has been developing the supersonic single-seat, nearly 100-foot-long aircraft at its Skunk Works factory in Palmdale, California. The aircraft is being designed with new technologies that would emit a lower boom, described as a soft thud, to buffer the impacts of the shockwaves associated with supersonic flight.
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