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NASA’s supersonic jet The X-59 took to the skies over California this week in its first successful test flight, potentially another step in this direction Fast commercial air travel.
NASA teamed up with defense and aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin to lead the first test flight of the X-59. The X-59 took off from the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, before landing safely about 30 miles away near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. statement From Lockheed Martin.
“Calm supersonic aircraftThe demonstration went off “exactly as planned”, according to the statement.
Only one crew member was on board for this week’s test flight, reuters Report. But the
According to Lockheed Martin, restrictions due to noise concerns are a major obstacle to supersonic commercial travel. But the X-59 can overcome this with its ability to fly at supersonic speeds, while also reducing “sonic booms to a light thump,” the company said.
These tests will continue in the coming months and will include the X-59’s first supersonic flights, during which the jet will “achieve optimal speed and altitude for quiet takeoff,” the statement said.
Transportation Secretary and acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy called the jet “a symbol of American ingenuity.”
“The American spirit knows no limits,” Duffy said in a statement. “It’s part of our DNA – the desire to go farther, faster and even quieter than ever before. This work maintains America’s place as a leader in aviation and has the potential to change the way the public flies.”
This week’s test flight comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in June The Federal Aviation Administration needs to end the long-standing ban on supersonic flights in the US Authorities initially banned supersonic flight due to concerns about disruptive noise.
According to Lockheed Martin, the X-59 will be used to collect “community feedback data” on the acceptability of the aircraft’s sonic boom. websiteThe website says this data will then “help NASA provide regulators with the information needed to establish an acceptable commercial supersonic noise standard to lift restrictions on commercial supersonic travel on the ground.”
Jets have been capable of flying at supersonic speeds since the 1940s. supersonic jet concorde It flew commercially in the 1970s, beginning operations through British Airways and Air France. Concorde was much larger and much faster than the newsweek Report.
Concorde made its last commercial flight in 2003, three years after a fatal crash.
On July 25, 2000, Air France had scheduled the jet to take off for New York – but after the jet passed over a piece of debris on the runway, one of its tires blew out, sending debris into a wing and rupturing a fuel tank. The jet then crashed near the French village of Gonesse.
All 109 passengers and crew on board, as well as four people on the ground, died in the accident.