NASA LANGLEY PUTS SUPERSONIC X-PLANE MODEL TO THE TEST
A day trip to Moscow? Paris for lunch? NASA’s quest for low-boom supersonic aircraft technology could one day revolutionize commercial air travel.
Now NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton is putting a sleek supersonic model plane through its paces in its 14-by-22 wind tunnel to move that vision closer to reality.
It’s called the QueSST aircraft design, for Quiet Supersonic Technology. And the idea is to convince Congress that super-fast commercial flights can be made over land — indeed, over
