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X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft
January 19 , 2024
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- NASA and Lockheed Martin recently unveiled the X-59 aircraft.
- It aims to conquer one of the key issues with supersonic aircraft- a sonic boom.
- The X-59 is the latest in a series of experimental planes which include the X-1.
- X-1 became the first manned aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in 1947.
- The X-15, which still holds the record for the fastest ever manned flight, set in 1967 at Mach 6.7.
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