NASA Pushes X-59 Through Quiet-Sonic Flight Maneuvers
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NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft completed a series of envelope-expansion maneuvers over the Mojave Desert, including roller-coaster climbs, bank-to-bank rolls, flutter tests, and gear deployment, to validate stability, control, and structural margins for its quiet supersonic design aimed at enabling overland flight without a loud sonic boom.
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