# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CZLMac5NT2q
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11733037-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-01-26T01:30:26.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

🌬💨✈️ Quiet supersonic flight? We’re working on it.

This first image shows a scale model of our X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) experimental aircraft during a recent sonic boom test inside a wind tunnel at our NASAGlenn Research Center in Ohio. 

Using a photographic process called “schlieren,” it shows the flow of air around a scale aircraft model, as well as the shock waves and their positions. NASAAero engineers have been testing the QueSST technology to make quiet supersonic flight a reality, letting future travelers get to their destinations faster. 

Currently, supersonic flight over communities is prohibited because sonic booms can be disruptive. Aeronautics researchers are trying to reduce the impact of a sonic boom by replacing it with a light “thump.” The sonic boom test was one of the final wind tunnel evaluations this year, and an important step as NASA and Lockheed Martin prepare the X-59 for its inaugural test flight this year. 

Credit: NASA 

#Boom #Schlieren #Photography #WindTunnels #Aviation ##Aero #Aeronautics #Engineering #SonicBoom #NASA #Supasonic

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sonicboom, schlieren, engineering, nasa, aero, windtunnels, photography, supasonic, aeronautics, aviation, boom

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