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An artist’s concept of NASA’s X-57 Maxwell aircraft shows the plane’s specially designed wing and electric motors.
Artist's rendering of X-57 Maxwell all-electric airplane.
The Propeller Test Stand in the Low Speed Aeroacoustic Wind Tunnel at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia.
X-57 High Lift Propeller LSAWT Test
Black and white drawing of the X-59 airplane
X-59 Crossword Puzzle
These shock waves are seen coming off a T-38 trainer jet during the Air-to-air Background Oriented Schlieren flights in 2019,...
X-59 jet engine is installed
Lockheed Martin Photography By Garry Tice 1011 Lockheed Way, Palmdale, Ca. 93599 Event: X-59 SIL Round 2 Date: 6/10/2021 Additional...
The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft is taking shape at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California....
The X-59 being assembled at the Lockheed Martin facility.
A GE Aviation F414-GE-100 engine is installed in NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft, at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in...
A schlieren image of the X-59 small-scale model captured inside NASA Glenn’s 8- by- 6-foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel. These images...
A red colorized schlieren image of a small-scale model of NASA’s X-59 aircraft.
Quiet, Efficient, SuperSonic Transport, QueSSt X-59 Low Boom Flight Demonstrator Model, LBFD Propulsion Configuration, in the 8x6 Foot Supersonic Wind...
X-59 model inside the 8x6 supersonic wind tunnel.
Teams at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio (top left), Langley’s Research Center in Virginia (bottom left), Armstrong Flight Research...
4 images in a quadrant. Top left is Glenn Research Center team, Top right is Armstrong Flight Research Center team, Bottom left is Langley Research Center team and the Bottom right is Ames Research Center team.
X-59 Artist Illustration
Artist illustration of the X-59 in flight over a surbuban neighborhood.
Quiet, Efficient, SuperSonic Transport, QueSSt X-59 Low Boom Flight Demonstrator Model, LBFD Propulsion Configuration, in the 8x6 Foot Supersonic Wind...
Model Aircraft inside 8 x 6 Wind Tunnel
NASA’s X-59 QueSST, an experimental piloted aircraft designed to fly faster than sound without producing the annoying – if not...
Artist illustration of the X-59 in flight over water and land.
Artist illustration of the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft, which will soon take skies as NASA’s first purpose-built, supersonic experimental...
Artist illustration of the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft in flight.
A GE Aviation F414-GE-100 engine is installed in NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft, at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in...
The GE Aviation F414-100 engine is installed in NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft, at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California.
The X-59 is free from its structural support jig for the first time. In this image, cranes are holding up...
The X-59 is free from its structural support jig for the first time.
Animated Gif of the X-59 flying over land.
Artist illustration of the X-59 in flight amongst the clouds
The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft being assembled at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. In this image the nose of the X-59 is being placed on at the front of the aircraft.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company - Fort Worth - Chris Hanoch Subject: X-59 - Various Angles in Test Fixture FP#: 21-03420...
NASA’s X-59 undergoes structural stress tests at a Lockheed Martin facility in Fort Worth, Texas.
NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology airplane undergoes structural stress tests at a Lockheed Martin facility in Fort Worth, Texas.
The X-59 undergoing stress tests at the Lockheed Martin Facility.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company - Fort Worth - Chris Hanoch Subject: SEG 230 Nose Attachement FP#: 21-03420 POC: Analiese Smith,...
A panoramic side view of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology airplane.
This panoramic side view of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology airplane shows the aircraft sitting on jacks at a Lockheed...
A panoramic side view of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology airplane.
A view of the X-59 being supported by ground supports in preparation for installation of the landing gear and other...
A view of the X-59 being supported by ground supports.
Lockheed Martin Photography By Garry Tice 1011 Lockheed Way, Palmdale, Ca. 93599 Event: X-59 SIL Round 2 Date: 6/10/2021 Additional...
A graphic rendering of the X59 eXternal Vision System
Pictured at left: The low pressure (hypobaric) chamber at KBR’s facility in San Antonio, Texas, simulates very high altitudes by...
Two images showing a KBR employee and a military test volunteer prepare for an altitude chamber flight.
Images captured at the beginning and end of 2020 show the progress made in assembling the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology...
Left image showing the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic airplane earlier in the year, the right showing the progress throughout the year.
A NASA F/A-18 is towed to the apron at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California during sunrise over...
A NASA F/A-18 is towed to the apron at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California
The F414-GE-100 engine, which will power NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane (QueSST) in flight, is unboxed at NASA’s Armstrong...
The F414-GE-100 engine that will power NASA's X-59 is unboxed at AFRC
The F414-GE-100 engine, which will power NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane (QueSST) in flight, is unboxed at NASA’s Armstrong...
The F414-GE-100 engine that will power NASA's X-59 is unboxed at AFRC
The F414-GE-100 engine, which will power NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane (QueSST) in flight, is unboxed at NASA’s Armstrong...
The F414-GE-100 engine that will power NASA's X-59 is unboxed at AFRC
The F414-GE-100 engine, which will power NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane (QueSST) in flight, is unboxed at NASA’s Armstrong...
The F414-GE-100 engine that will power NASA's X-59 is unboxed at AFRC
The F414-GE-100 engine, which will power NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane (QueSST) in flight, is unboxed at NASA’s Armstrong...
The F414-GE-100 engine that will power NASA's X-59 is unboxed at AFRC
A time-lapse video shows recent progress in assembling NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works®...
Screen shot from a timelapse video of the X-59 being assembled.
Juliet Page, a physical scientist with the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, calibrates a microphone station during the CarpetDIEM flight...
Juliet Page calibrates a microphone station during the CarpetDIEM flight series.
Left to right: Interns Daniel Prohaska, Thomas Ozoroski, Robert Kohring on a telecom with other X-59 flight-sim team discussing their...
X-59 intern laptop simulations
Part of a wing spar for NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology airplane is prepared for installation by a pair of...
Lockheed Martin technicians working on the wing spar for NASA's X-59.