While common travellers have had to satisfy their desire for futuristic flight by booking passage aboard a Boeing 777 or Airbus A380, NASA has been busy cooking up some seriously cool new concepts. Faster, quieter, more fuel-efficient and let’s face it – way more awesome looking – these new aircraft have it all. These are the green designs that might soon dominate our skies.
Teams from The Boeing Company in Huntington Beach, Calif., Lockheed Martin in Palmdale, Calif., and Northrop Grumman in El Segundo, Calif., have spent the last year studying how to meet NASA goals to develop technology that would allow future aircraft to burn 50 percent less fuel than aircraft that entered service in 1998 (the baseline for the study), with 50 percent fewer harmful emissions; and to shrink the size of geographic areas affected by objectionable airport noise by 83 percent.
New Ideas for Greener Aircraft
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New Ideas for Greener Aircraft
Three industry teams spent 2011 studying how to meet NASA's goals for making future aircraft burn 50 percent less fuel than aircraft that entered service in 1998, emit 75 percent fewer harmful emissions; and shrink the size of geographic areas affected by objectionable airport noise by 83 percent.
Image credit: NASA
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sounds like a good plan,maybe one day to point a to point b, half the time ,really neet.
when are going have own ufo cars to fly. in sky.no more bumper to bumper.lines
willy
future of flight
