MIflyer
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Designed to investigate how sonic booms can be reduced. To be delivered later this year and to fly next year.
NASA X-59 Quiet SST
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That thing must be interesting to land. Is there a camera in the nose?
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MIflyer
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You see that fairing right in front of the cockpit? I have to assume it has to be for a camera.
In any case, at last someone topped the X-3 for a long thin sharply pointed airplane.
And in any case, even if it is not successful as a design it doubtless will appear in many SF movies.
In any case, at last someone topped the X-3 for a long thin sharply pointed airplane.
And in any case, even if it is not successful as a design it doubtless will appear in many SF movies.
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Interesting!
And now she is "closer to runway".
What a look... I feel nostalgic. It's something from the tech magazines of my childhood.
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What a look... I feel nostalgic. It's something from the tech magazines of my childhood.
NASA’s X-59 Moves Closer to Runway
This series of images shows NASA’s X-59 as it sits on the flight line -- the space between the hangar and the runway -- at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, on June 16, 2023.
