Last year NASA awarded contracts to a few teams at Lockheed Martin , Northrop Gurmman and Boeing to create an ideal plane for 2025, silent and with low fuel consumption. This is what they came up with, that could enter service in 2025.
These are NASA requirements:
And each design has to fly up to 85 percent of the rate of sound; cover a number of approximately 7,000 miles; and carry between 50,000 and 100,000 pounds of payload, either passengers or cargo.
The first one is the proposal by Lockheed. This one is by Northrop Grumman:
And here’s the Boeing one:
Quite different approaches to an identical problem. We can see what really happens when the release date comes. [ NASA ]
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