Nasa released a video showing Lockheed Martin's progress in building nasa's X-59 QueSST test aircraft at its skunk plant, as seen on The Aseblymag website reported on October 24. The X-59 QueSST (Silent Supersonic Technology) aims to demonstrate that by combining the new aerodynamic shape, engine configuration and control technology, the new supersonic airliner can reduce the amount of noise generated by sonic booms.
The X-59 aircraft is undergoing a low-altitude flight demonstration test program that includes passing a series of flight tests using a microphone array. The arrays were mounted on the ground to record the sound levels produced when flying supersonically, as it traveled at Mach 1.42 (937 mph).
The X-59's maiden flight is scheduled for next year, with overpopulations in densely populated neighborhoods scheduled for 2024.
The collected test data is crucial to lifting the ban on commercial supersonic flight on land internationally. The ban has been in place since 1976, the first and only supersonic airliner operating between the United Kingdom, France and the United States, the Concorde.
Several U.S. companies are now developing supersonic airliners, including Boom, Spike Aerospace, and Exosonic.
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