NASA's X-59 Quesst is designed to minimize sonic booms so that commercial supersonic flight can undergo a resurgence in the next 10 years.
Imagine leaving work in L.A. or San Francisco a little early on a Friday afternoon and winding up with a drink on the beach in Maui before cocktail hour is over. Imagine Seattle to Tokyo in four hours, New York to London in three-plus.sector believe that supersonic commercial flights are not only possible, but are working to design, build and certify aircraft in the next five to ten years.
Always an expensive and fuel-intensive aircraft, the Concorde made its last flight in the UK in 2003, landing at an aviation museum in Bristow, where it became a fixed display.Now, NASA, working with Lockheed Martin, hopes to rehabilitate supersonic commercial air travel by mitigating the boom. The team overseeing the X-59 Quesst project is promoting the idea that the supersonic speed limit should be lifted as soon as the sonic boom becomes a non-issue.
In 2003, this converted Northrop 5E was the first X-Plane to prove that sonic booms could be mitigated by a jet’s shape.The X-59 concept was first presented in 2018, with NASA presenting a $248 million grant to Lockheed Martin to develop the jet. After extensive computer modeling and wind-tunnel testing, the X-59 was formally presented to the world at Lockheed’s California Skunk Works facility in January. The slender, needle-nosed aircraft is 99.7 feet long and 29.
Once the X-59 takes flight, it will go through safety testing, then a period of acoustic evaluations before NASA embarks on a series of test flights over select cities where pre-briefed citizens will offer feedback to help determine if the technology achieves acceptable noise levels.
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