AIR International September 2020

WORLD EXCLUSIVE: X-PLANE SPECIAL ISSUE

SUPERSONIC COMEBACK
NASA & Lockheed Martin’s quest to stifle the sonic boom

THE X 59 FILES
• Why it has no windscreen
• How junkyard jets helped build the ‘Frankenplane’
• The robots aiding construction

INSIDE THE SKUNK WORKS
Engineers share the secret of X-59’s shape