NASA's X-59 Shows Off Early Flight Test Maneuvers
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- NASA's X-59 experimental aircraft is undergoing envelope expansion flight tests to understand its performance.
- Key maneuvers include rollercoaster for stability, bank-to-bank for rolling, flutter excitation for vibrations, wings-level push for pitch, and gear-extend for landing gear effects.
- The Quesst mission aims to enable commercial supersonic flight over land by reducing sonic booms to quiet thumps with the X-59.
- NASA plans to survey public reactions to quieter sonic thumps and provide data to regulators for new supersonic flight rules.