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

 

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

NASA’s X-59 aircraft has completed final installation of its lower empennage, better known as the tail assembly. These pictures were 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)/Lockheed Martin

Release Date: April 11, 2023

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