Artist’s concept of a possible Low Boom Flight Demonstrator X-plane design for Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST).
Shockwaves produced by a U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School T-38 are captured by a camera to study flow patterns.
Flight Test Engineer inspects the Cockpit Interactive Sonic Boom Display Avionics, or CISBoomDA, from the cockpit of a NASA F-18.
The CISBoomDA display allows the pilot of a supersonic aircraft to monitor the locations of any sonic booms produced.
NASA pilot and flight test engineer head for a mission debrief after a SonicBAT flight to study sonic boom signatures.
A microphone array positioned strategically along the ground at Edwards Air Force Base, California, sits ready to collect sound signatures…
NASA's X-57 Maxwell aircraft will feature a specially designed wing with 14 electric motors.
The Tecnam P2006T cockpit for the X-57, or Maxwell.
The Italian Tecnam P2006T aircraft, the future X-57 Maxwell, arrives in California.
X-56A flights are used to study active aeroelastic control technologies for flutter suppression and wind gust load alleviation.