22nd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Harrogate, UK, 28 August - 1st September, 2000
Paper ICAS 2000-1.1.2 (IL)

AN OVERVIEW OF NASA'S HIGH SPEED RESEARCH PROGRAM

A. W. Wilhite, R. J. Shaw
NASA Langley & NASA Lewis Research Centers, USA

Keywords: high-speed research program

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration sponsored a joint High-Speed Research Program with United States airframe and propulsion companies to provide the critical high-risk technologies for a Mach 2.4, 300 passenger civil transport. Laboratory and medium-scale tests provided promising results in meeting both the environmental and economic goals for a future High-Speed Civil Transport. However, before the technologies were demonstrated at large and full scale, the program was cancelled because of global economic concerns of the U.S. transport industry.

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