NASA X-59’s Latest Testing Milestone: Simulating Flight from the Ground

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NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is seen during its “aluminum bird” systems testing at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The test verified how the aircraft’s hardware and software work together, responding to pilot inputs and handling injected system failures.

Lockheed Martin / Garry Tice

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft successfully...