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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