Lockheed Martin Begins Assembly Of NASA X-59 Low-Boom Demonstrator Written 18 June 2019
18 June 2019
Aviation Week reports that the “assembly of the X-59, the first purpose-designed piloted NASA aeronautics research X-plane since the X-31 nearly 30 years ago, is getting underway inside the cavernous Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California.” In development of the experimental aircraft, “only the first few sections of aluminum wing spars and keel beam have so far been loaded into the jigs,” and “the outline of the assembly support structure reveals how the slender planform of the highly swept aircraft will eventually look.” (Image Credit: NASA)
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Aviation Week reports that the “assembly of the X-59, the first purpose-designed piloted NASA aeronautics research X-plane since the X-31 nearly 30 years ago, is getting underway inside the cavernous Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California.” In development of the experimental aircraft, “only the first few sections of aluminum wing spars and keel beam have so far been loaded into the jigs,” and “the outline of the assembly support structure reveals how the slender planform of the highly swept aircraft will eventually look.” (Image Credit: NASA)
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