Lockheed Martin supersonic jet hits the wind tunnel – in model form

Lockheed Martin supersonic jet hits the wind tunnel – in model form

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Last March, NASA announced that as part of its New Aviation Horizons initiative, Lockheed Martin had been chosen to develop a manned demonstrator aircraft called the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) X-plane. It would be used to test technologies that would make commercial supersonic aircraft quiet enough to fly over land. Eleven months later, Lockheed and the agency are ready to take the next step as a nine-percent scale model starts wind tunnel tests at the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

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• Supersonic
• Lockheed Martin
• NASA

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February 24, 2017 at 08:06AM