Engineers can take advantage of on-site equipment before returning the plane to California, the agency says.
facilities in late December, moving the plane between Palmdale, California and Fort Worth, Texas to take advantage of specialized equipment available in the Lone Star State to make sure the speedy vehicle won't face too much stress in mid-air.
"It would have been expensive and time consuming to design and build them from scratch in Palmdale," Mike Buonanno, a Lockheed Martin aerospace engineer who is the vehicle lead for the X-59, said in a"In Fort Worth, they've got the perfect facility with a full control room and all the support equipment needed to do those tests very efficiently," Buonanno added.
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