X-59 Roll Out Ceremony

Greg Ulmer, Lockheed Martin Executive Vice President of Aeronautics, speaks on stage moments before the unveiling NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft at a January 12, 2024 event at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The X-59 is the centerpiece of NASA’s Quesst mission, which seeks to solve one of the major barriers to supersonic flight over land, currently banned in the United States, by making sonic booms quieter.