AeronauticsPresentation
Nasa Supersonics Research and the X-59 —To Enable Future Supersonic Travel!
20231 min read62 words
Don Durston
Ames Research Center
- Brief history of supersonic flight
- Shock waves and sonic booms
- Sonic boom pressure signatures and loudness
- Tools for studying quiet supersonic flight
- CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics)
- Wind tunnels
- Flight test
- Quesst Mission
- X-59 airplane
- Mission profile
- Flight simulations
- Wind tunnel data validations
- Video: Supersonic flight research leading to Quesst
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