NASA's X-59 Takes Off Near Armstrong
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft takes off from Edwards Air Force Base near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Thursday, March 26, 2026. The flight supports NASA’s Quesst mission to demonstrate supersonic flight that produces a quieter sonic “thump” instead of a loud sonic boom.
- Date
- 2026-03-26
- Photographer / author
- NASA/Carla Thomas
- Collection
- AFRC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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