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The Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst ("Quiet SuperSonic Technology"), sometimes styled QueSST, is an American experimental supersonic aircraft under development by Skunk Works for NASA's Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator project. [2] Preliminary design started in February 2016, with the X-59 planned to begin flight testing in 2021.
The new craft was designed and built by prime contractor Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, under a $247.5 million NASA contract. With factory rollout now complete, the X-59 will ...
Rendering of an early design of the XB-1 demonstrator. The design was unveiled at Centennial Airport in Dove Valley, near Denver, Colorado, on November 15, 2016, [5] and it was initially intended to make its first subsonic flight in late 2017, powered by General Electric CJ610 (civilian version of GE's J85) turbojet engines, with subsequent supersonic flight test planned elsewhere.
The Lockheed Martin Skunk Works began developing the QSST in May 2001 under a $25-million contract from SAI. Designed to cruise at an altitude of 60,000 feet (18,288 meters) at speeds of Mach 1.6 to 1.8 (approximately 1,218 to 1,370 statute miles per hour, or 1,920 to 2,204 kilometers per hour) with a range of 4,600 statute miles (approx. 7,402 km), the two-engine gull-wing aircraft was ...
OSHKOSH – Commercial supersonic flights could be a thing again in the not-so-distant future. Fifty years after passenger supersonic travel over land was banned over noise concerns, NASA believes ...
X-59 Quesst: Lockheed Martin NASA 2024 Prototype quiet supersonic transport aircraft [72] X-60: Generation Orbit Launch Services: USAF Air-launched rocket for hypersonic flight research [73] X-61 Gremlins: Dynetics: DARPA 2020 Air-launched and air-recoverable reconnaissance unmanned air vehicle (UAV) [74] [75] X-62 VISTA: Lockheed Martin ...
Lockheed Martin X-55 – Advanced composites technology demonstrator; Lockheed Martin X-56 – Flutter suppression and gust load testing unmanned testbed; NASA X-57 Maxwell - Electric-powered light aircraft; Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST - Low-boom supersonic aircraft; Generation Orbit X-60 - Air-launched single stage suborbital rocket vehicle
Lockheed Martin X-56 (MUTT) Fixed Wing, UAV Research Platform, X-Planes, Multi-Utility Technology Testbed Retired (1) 2012 Armstrong Flight Research Center: Active flutter suppression and gust load alleviation technology for potential use in future high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) reconnaissance aircraft. [40] Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST