The missions first flight is expected this year and testing will run through 2027.
But were getting ahead of ourselves.
you’ve got the option to watch live onNASAs websiteandon YouTube(embed above).
Concept art of the painted X-59 aircraft in its hangar.Illustration:NASA
Leaders from NASA and Lockheed Martin are slated to speak at the event.
The first person to break the sound barrier in a plane was Chuck Yeager, in 1947.
Yeager madehis famous flightin the Bell X-1, one of the first experimental aircraft, also known as X-planes.
An artist’s depiction of the X-59 in flight.Illustration:Lockheed Martin
Some 77 years later, the X-59 will carry on that supersonic mantle.
The X-59 rollout just marks the beginning of the Quesst missions first phase.
Phase 2 will prove out the quiet supersonic technology and test the planes performance in the air.
And thats the future the X-59 could enable.
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