NASA's quiet X-59 supersonic jet takes off for its first flight

[FlameOut]

Well, the flight program is underway October 28, 2025

- Don

 

[Airspeed]

Well, the flight program is underway October 28, 2025

- Don

Thanks for that, Don.
Looks like an old russian design. Maybe they had it right decades ago?

 

[PhrogPhlyer]

Looks like an old russian design.

Which Soviet aircraft are you referring to?

 

[MrZippy]

Which Soviet aircraft are you referring to?

TU-144 maybe??

 

[PhrogPhlyer]

Could be, that was one VERY noisy aircraft.

 

[Airspeed]

Just the general look of it, sharp delta wings. Looking closer today, I see that the fuselage is less of a straight tube than I first thought. Maybe my first impression was wrong.