{"id":207597,"date":"2025-03-02T10:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T16:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/nasas-x-59-quiet-supersonic-jet-clears-major-hurdle-ahead-of-1st-flight-photos"},"modified":"2025-03-02T10:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T16:20:34","slug":"nasas-x-59-quiet-supersonic-jet-clears-major-hurdle-ahead-of-1st-flight-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/nasas-x-59-quiet-supersonic-jet-clears-major-hurdle-ahead-of-1st-flight-photos","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s X-59 quiet supersonic jet clears \u2018major hurdle\u2019 ahead of 1st flight (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-x-59-quiet-supersonic-jet-clears-major-hurdle-ahead-of-1st-flight-photos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As such, during the recent tests, NASA staged an F-15D just 47 feet (14 meters) from the X-59 to \u201cconfirm there\u2019s compatibility between the two aircraft, even at close proximity,\u201d Lin said.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the F-15D and X-59 were further separated on the ground to sit at a distance of 500 feet (152 meters) from one another, which simulated the conditions in which they will fly together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want to make discoveries of any potential electromagnetic interference or electromagnetic compatibility issues on the ground first,\u201d Lin said. \u201cThis reduces risk and ensures we\u2019re not learning about problems in the air.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As such, during the recent tests, NASA staged an F-15D just 47 feet (14 meters) from the X-59 to \u201cconfirm there\u2019s compatibility between the two aircraft, even at close proximity,\u201d Lin said. After that, the F-15D and X-59 were further separated on the ground to sit at a distance of 500 feet (152 meters) from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}