NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology, or QueSST, aircraft is poised to usher in a new dawn of supersonic commercial aviation through its culmination of unique technologies that lend themselves to quiet supersonic flight.
“Our goal is to create an electronic means of vision for the X-59 pilot that provides performance and safety levels equivalent to or better than forward-facing windows.” Source: Randy Bailey, XVS subsystem lead.
A tendency for an aircraft to yaw to the left due to the descending propeller blade on the right producing more thrust than the ascending blade on the left.
From the website: "We fly an airplane that was the peak of pre-World War II development. It took more than a decade and a half before the features of the Ercoupe were the norm in civil aviation. Yet the industry finally followed.
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