NASA’s X-59 Arrives at New Base of Flight Operations
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft sits inside Hangar 4826 at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Nov. 18, 2025. Following its first flight on Oct. 25, 2025, in support of NASA’s Quesst mission, the aircraft entered scheduled maintenance as part of its transition into flight operations. Quesst aims to demonstrate quiet supersonic flight and reduce the disruptive sonic boom to a quieter sonic thump.
- Date
- 2025-11-18
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- NASA/Christopher LC Clark
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- AFRC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
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- photograph
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