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NASA Invites Media to Learn About Upcoming X-59 Test Flights

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NASA Invites Media to Learn About Upcoming X-59 Test Flights — NASA Science
Source: NASA Science

The agency will hold a media teleconference at 5:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 19 to preview plans for the X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft’s upcoming flight tests. The call is scheduled to take place after the aircraft’s second flight in California. Agency leadership will join representatives from the Quesst mission and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works.

Test pilots will be available to discuss what it’s like to fly the X-59 and how they prepare for flights. Participants named in the advisory include Amit Kshatriya; Cathy Bahm, project manager for the Low Boom Flight Demonstrator at Armstrong Flight Research Center; Peter Coen, Quesst mission integration manager at Langley Research Center; Jim “Clue” Less and Nils Larson, X-59 test pilots; and Pat LeBeau, Lockheed Martin X-59 project manager.

The news conference will stream on the program’s YouTube channel, with an instant replay available online.

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