NASA and Lockheed Martin formally debuted the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft Friday. Using this one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims to

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    10 months ago

    Someone with the skills and knowledge to “manually” produce some of the many one-off parts that went into this prototype.

    The scientists and engineers may know what kind of part is needed, but it takes a different skillset to produce it.

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      10 months ago

      So like the welders for the Russian rocket engines that were produced 50 years ago? Seems those welds are something we aren’t sure how they did it.