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Jim Less

Aug 19, 2026

6:05
world.Was there a comparable specific aircraft design you referenced during development?
6:10
There aren't really designs like the X-59.
6:14
There's a lot of unique things about it.
6:16
But as an X-plane, as a, a one-of-a-kind demonstrator, we did look at the X-31 program, the X-29 program.
6:25
Many of the engineers from Lockheed that have done the nitty-gritty designing and building of this airplane worked on other aircraft projects with Lockheed, particularly F-35.
6:35
That's the, the biggest, most recent program they've got going.
6:39
Um, so they bring lessons learned from multiple different aircraft, um, over many years or even decades.

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