NASA ‘learns to listen to X-59’ by simulating sonic noises with fighter jets (photo)
Before NASA’s new X-59 supersonic jet could break the sound barrier, scientists needed to record equivalent sonic booms to use as reference. Test pilots at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center took to the skies high in the Southern California desert near the U.S. Air Force’s Edwards Air Force Base to produce the “thumps” the X-59… Read More »