By jorgebgt on Skatehive
NASA resumes supersonic flights. https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2807625/LockheedMartinX59FirstFlight.jpg?w=2700 Souce For decades, the sound of speed was also the sound of limits. When the Concorde crossed the sky at more than twice the speed of sound, windows rattled and the planet heard thunder coming from above. It was the sonic boom, the price paid for speed, and it was precisely that sound that ended the golden age of civil supersonic flight. But now, almost 70 years later, NASA has decided to rewrite this story, this time in silence, or almost. The experimental X-59 QueSST aircraft, developed in collaboration with Lockheed Martin, made its first official flight, taking off from the legendary Skunk Works base in California, the same birthplace of secret projects such as the SR-71 Blackbird and the F-117 Night Hawk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIwcModSxdE The X59 QueSST is a wing-shaped scientific experiment. Its elongated nose, measuring almost 11 meters, and slender fuselag