Breaking the Sound Barrier: NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Plane Unveiled
X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology X-Plane
Quieting the Sonic Boom
SUPPORTING NASA’S MISSION TO SILENCE THE SONIC BOOM
For more than a decade, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and NASA have collaborated
to solve one of the most persistent challenges of supersonic flight - the sonic boom.
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works is leading the design, build and flight test of the the X-59
quiet supersonic technology X-plane. The technology demonstrator will be flown over
populated areas to provide U.S. and international regulators with statistically valid data
required to help approve new rules that could allow quiet commercial supersonic flight
over land, which could bring us one step closer to quiet supersonic travel for passengers
around the globe.
The X-59 is an experimental supersonic aircraft shaped to reduce the loudness of a sonic
boom reaching the ground to that of a gentle thump. The X-plane accomplishes this by a
tailored design that separates the shock waves that produce sonic booms, making them
quieter. The resulting supersonic “heartbeat“ is dramatically quieter than the disruptive
N-wave boom generated by today’s supersonic aircraft. We look forward to supporting
NASA in the effort to obtain the data regulators will need to make informed decisions on
appropriate sonic boom levels in the quest to remove the prohibition on supersonic over
land flight.
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