NASA unveils ideas for the aircraft of 2025
LONDON: In what may become the face of modern aviation, NASA has unveiled three concept designs for quiet, energy efficient aircraft which it says could be ready for flight as soon as 2025.
Criteria set by NASA meant that each design had to fly up to 85 per cent of the speed of sound, cover a range of about 7,000 miles and carry between 50,000 and 100,000 of payload; either cargo or passengers.
Now, each of the three companies will spend the rest of this year exploring, testing and simulating their designs in the hope that NASA will choose it for development.
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85% of sound speed i.e. around 1000 KMPH, now thats the speed of current jets, so whats new in this NASA design? except longer flying capabilities and using proposed greener energy!