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Credit: Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin Corp has released a photo of the first prototype of its supersonic X-plane, the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST), during ​the beginning of the final assembly process. X-59 QueSST (Quiet Supersonic Technology) will be used to collect community response data on the acceptability of a …

NASA’s experimental X-59 jet, which could make supersonic commercial travel a reality, has been cleared for final assembly. The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft, designed by Lockheed Martin, could take its first flight as soon as 2021. NASA’s first large scale piloted X-plane in more than three decades is …