The working version of X-59 will be colored green. As noted, this aircraft is a demonstration of new technologies, using the example of which NASA will try to deliver a machine with reduced noise at a maximum speed of Mach 1.42 or 1512 km/h at an altitude of 18 thousand meters. The noise level is expected to be no more than 75 decibels; this is slightly louder than the noise of slamming car doors or the usual traffic noise.
The X-59 fuselage length is more than 29 m, the wingspan is 9 m. This aircraft is built on the chassis of the F-16 fighter jet, the maximum take-off weight is 14.7 tons. The aircraft is powered by the General Electric F414 engine used in the F-18E F Super Hornet and JAS 39 Gripen warplanes.
“The silent supersonic Questst will make its first flight from Lockheed’s Palmdale, California facility. Questst’s mission has two goals: to design and build NASA’s X-59 research aircraft with technology that will reduce the volume of the sonic boom to a soft sound for people on the ground, and to fly the X-59 over selected communities in the United States. to collect data on people’s reactions to the sound generated during supersonic flight and to provide this data to U.S. and international regulators,” NASA said in a statement.
Source: Ferra
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