Coming Later This Year!

The NASA/Lockheed-Martin X-59 sounds like an interesting machine. The pilot will have to depend on feeds to 4k screens in the cockpit in order to “see,” all while cruising at Mach 1.4 (937 MPH) at 55,000 feet.

Sounds like a Darwin Award in the making.

Pilots say they aren’t worried, though, partly because it’s not a wholely IFR situation, not a totally obstructed view. There are windows– just not front-facing ones. Talk about having faith in your instrumentation.

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