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Engineering Club Visits NASA Armstrong

Students look at a subscale model at the Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research Laboratory at NASA’s Armstrong Research...

NASA’s X-59 Begins Taxi Tests

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft taxis across the runway during a low-speed taxi test at U.S. Air...

ASTER Views California Crown Fire

NASA Terra spacecraft captured this image of the wildfire near Palmdale, Calif. on August 1, 2010 called the Crown...

NASA ER-2 Checks Out New Airborne Multiangle Polarizing Imager

These three images are from NASA ER-2 aircraft which imaged the area around the Palmdale, Calif., airport during its...

NASA’s X-59 Completes Electromagnetic Interference Testing

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft successfully completed electromagnetic interference (EMI) testing at...

X-59 Returns to Palmdale

Studying Winter Snowstorms with NASA’s ER-2 aircraft B-Roll

The ER-2 high-altitude aircraft, based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale,...

Overhead Image of NASA’s X-59 in Construction

An overhead view of the X-59 during assembly in spring 2023. Assembly took place at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works...

Quality Inspection of NASA’s X-59 Engine

A quality inspector inspects the GE F-414 engine nozzle after installation at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility...

Quality Inspection on X-59

A quality inspector checks NASA’s X-59 aircraft during the construction phase. The X-59 was built in Lockheed...

Lower Empennage Test Fit Install

The X-59 team at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, load the lower empennage - the tail section -...

Checkout Tests of X-59 Landing Gear

Technicians perform landing gear checkout testing at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. These...

Lower Empennage Test Fit Install

The X-59 team at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, load the lower empennage - the tail section -...

NASA’s X-59 Lifts Off for First Flight

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft lifts off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air...

NASA’s X-59 Accelerates for Takeoff

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft accelerates down the runway Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, at U.S. Air Force...

NASA’s X-59 Takes Historic First Flight

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft lifts off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air...

NASA’s X-59 Takes Historic First Flight

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft lifts off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air...

NASA’s X-59 Soars After Historic Takeoff

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air...

NASA’s X-59 Soars After Historic Takeoff

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air...

NASA’s X-59 Takes Historic First Flight

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft lifts off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air...

NASA’s X-59 Accelerates for Takeoff

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft accelerates down the runway Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, at U.S. Air Force...

NASA’s X-59 Accelerates for Takeoff

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft accelerates down the runway Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, at U.S. Air Force...

NASA’s X-59 Soars After Historic Takeoff

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took off for its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, from U.S. Air...

Northrop Grumman Corporation's modified U.S. Navy F-5E Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration (SSBD) aircraft flies over the company's Palmdale, Calif. facilities on Aug. 2, 2003

Northrop Grumman Corporation's modified U.S. Navy F-5E Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration (SSBD) aircraft flies over...