NASA’s New X-59 Aircraft: Tail Installed | Armstrong Flight Research Center

NASA’s New X-59 Aircraft: Tail Installed | Armstrong Flight Research Center

In this time lapse video, you will see NASA’s X-59 aircraft undergo final installation of its lower empennage, better known as the tail assembly. This time lapse was taken at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The installation allows the team to continue final wiring and system checkouts on the aircraft as it prepares for integrated ground testing, which will include engine runs and taxi tests. The X-59 aircraft is designed to demonstrate the ability to fly supersonic while reducing the loud sonic boom to a quiet sonic thump and is the centerpiece of NASA’s Quesst mission.

For more information, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/Quesst
www.nasa.gov/quesst-supersonic-stem-toolkit
https://www.nasa.gov/flightlog

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 2 minutes, 26 seconds

Release Date: April 11, 2023

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