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X-59 Supersonic Test Jet Looks Positively Sci-Fi Head-On

A frontal view of the X-59 reveals details of its pilot vision system, provided in lieu of any forward-facing windows for its pilot.

BYTHOMAS NEWDICK|PUBLISHED JUL 6, 2023 4:52 PM EDT

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Lockheed Martin’s latest photos of the experimental X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft, or QueSST, built by the company Skunk Works for NASA, provide perhaps the best view so far of its radical forward-vision system, as well as revealing the jet in an increasingly complete state. The aircraft, which provides no traditional forward visibility to its pilot, is by far one of the most incredible looking and outright exotic flying machines we have seen, with its side profile equally as impressive as its head-on view.

Ultimately, it’s planned that the X-59 will achieve supersonic speeds over land that create no more than a sonic ‘thump’ — rather than the ‘boom’ associated with previous supersonic transports. That could convince U.S. and international regulators to change the laws governing supersonic commercial aviation.