NASA Test Pilot Jim Less Poses with X-59 Research Aircraft
NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” Less poses with the newly-painted X-59 as it sits on the ramp 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.
- Date
- 2023-12-12
- Photographer / author
- NASA/Steve Freeman
- Collection
- HQ
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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