NASA has unveiled recent updates to its Lockheed Martin-designed X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology jet and said that construction of the Mach 1.4-speed aircraft is halfway complete, Aviation International News reported Monday.
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NASA has verified the readiness of its Lockheed Martin-built supersonic X-plane for final assembly and systems integration.
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Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works segment has begun assembly work on an experimental supersonic aircraft for NASA after completing the critical design review process.
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Lockheed Martin has tapped Collins Aerospace to deliver environmental control systems and other equipment for the development of a NASA supersonic aircraft which will be utilized to investigate the possibility of supersonic commercial air travel.
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Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works division has started to build a supersonic demonstrator aircraft at its facility in Palmdale, Calif., under a potential $247.5M contract that NASA awarded in April. The X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft is designed to travel at a speed of approximately 940 miles per hour at 55K feet …
Read More » NASA will perform on Thursday, Oct. 25, wind-tunnel tests of a small-scale model of a supersonic aircraft at the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. Langley engineers will test an eight-percent scale model of the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane to gather data needed to build up the control …
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Lockheed Martin and Spike Aerospace are among the companies that submitted proposals to NASA in September to build a full-scale demonstrator of a supersonic passenger jet, Popular Mechanics reported Monday. The bids come as NASA works to complete wind-tunnel tests on a 15-percent-scale model of the Quiet Supersonic Technology X-plane at …
Read More » NASA has started to perform wind-tunnel tests on a small-scale model of a supersonic passenger jet at the space agency’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, the Daily Press reported Thursday. Langley researchers have begun to subject the 15-percent-scale model of the Quiet Supersonic Technology X-plane to slower wind speeds at Langley’s …
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Charles Chase, a program lead at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works unit, has said Lockheed and NASA expect to wrap up the evaluation phase on the preliminary design of a supersonic aircraft by June before the company and the agency begin the critical design review, FlightGlobal reported Wednesday. Chase told the …
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Lockheed Martin and NASA have begun high-speed wind tunnel tests on the preliminary design of a supersonic passenger jet at the space agency’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio. NASA said Saturday it will continue to test a nine percent scale model of the Quiet Supersonic Technology X-plane in GRC’s Supersonic Wind Tunnel over the …
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A Lockheed Martin-led team has been awarded a potential 17-month, $20 million task order to perform preliminary design work on NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Transport X-plane aircraft. NASA awarded the task order for the “low boom” flight QueSST passenger jet under the Basic and Applied Aerospace Research and Technology contract and as part …
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