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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.
X-55: Lockheed Martin USAF 2009 Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft (ACCA) [67] X-56: Lockheed Martin USAF/NASA 2013 Active flutter suppression and gust load alleviation Part of the high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) reconnaissance aircraft program. [68] X-57 Maxwell: ESAero/Tecnam: NASA 2023 Low emission plane powered entirely by electric ...
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
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 ...
Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel; Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst; S. ... Lockheed Martin X-56 This page was last edited on 21 May 2024, at 13:47 (UTC). Text ...
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 ...
This is a list of aircraft produced or proposed by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation from its founding as the Lockheed Aircraft Company in 1926 to its merging with Martin Marietta to form the Lockheed Martin Corporation in 1995. Ordered by model number, Lockheed gave most of its aircraft astronomical names, from the first Vega to the C-5 Galaxy.
Lockheed L-2000; Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst; M. McDonnell Douglas High Speed Civil Transport; N. Next Generation Supersonic Transport; North American NAC-60; R.