NASA's supersonic X-59 QueSST coming together at Skunk Works
In the high desert of California, where some of the most important aircraft in aviation history have been built and flown, the next airplane destined to take its place among those aeronautical icons continues to take shape on a legendary factory floor. That airplane is NASA's X-59 QueSST (short for Quiet SuperSonic Technology), an experimental piloted aircraft designed to fly faster than s