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Sign up to fly with NASA using the Flight Log Experience

by John Gould
NASA

NASA Aeronautics is cleared for takeoff through 2022, and we
invite you and your family, friends, and classmates to join us and share
in exciting aeronautical events happening this year and beyond using
the new Flight Log Experience.
These milestones include first flights of two new X-planes: the X-57
Maxwell and X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft.
The X-57 Maxwell is NASA’s first all-electric airplane. It is a gen-
eral aviation-size aircraft that is powered by electrically driven motors
— demonstrating new electric aviation technology. The aircraft will
help further the introduction of more sustainable aviation technology
to our skies.
The X-59 QueSST is a single-seat jet designed to create a quieter
sonic “thump” at supersonic speeds instead of a louder sonic boom. As
part of the Low-Boom Flight Demonstration mission, it will perform
test flights to gauge the public’s reaction to the lower sound level
with the hope of enabling a new era of commercial supersonic travel.
Via the Flight Log, you can be on board the X-57 and X-59 aircraft
when they each make their very first flights this year, along with the
support vehicles and chase airplanes for them, and even other aircraft
working on missions such as Advanced Air Mobility.
When you sign up for a flight, your name will be digitized and
downloaded onto a storage device that will be carried personally by
the pilot on that flight.
You’ll also receive a printable boarding pass with your name on it,
and the flight will be entered into your logbook just like the way real Activities related to aviation and our aeronautical research will be history. You can also keep track of your own flight story with NASA
pilots keep track of their flights. You can even earn virtual mission available to participants, including STEM educators and their students. Aeronautics — one that we hope will last for years to come,” said
patches to be downloaded and displayed proudly. When you complete one of the activities, you earn an endorsement — Lanotte.
“The Flight Log Experience is a great way for students, educators, a stamp in your logbook displaying the achievement — just as pilots With these flights slated for the near future, don’t wait to claim
and the public to ride along with NASA on our many flights, and to earn new ratings and certifications. your seat. Visit this page for details on how to get your boarding
learn more about what we do and about flight in general,” said April Additionally, in the future, your name could be included on the pass, and let’s fly!
Lanotte, NASA Aeronautics’ lead for STEM integration. flights of many different kinds of aircraft ranging from drones to re- Special Note for Educators: The Flight Log Experience can also
Though you won’t be climbing aboard in person, the Flight Log search aircraft and even experimental aircraft other than the X-57 be used by entire classrooms, used by educators to teach about
does provide more ways to learn about the research NASA Aeronau- and X-59. aviation, and inspire students to consider careers in the transform-
tics is conducting. “Pilots in training keep flight logs to document their personal flight ing world of aeronautics.

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