Future of flight?
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SUGAR Ray concept by Boeing
With the aviation industry rapidly changing, NASA opened the floor to private enterprises seeing if innovation could be achieved.
The following designs are meant to take to the air between 2030 and 2035.
This is an artist's concept of an aircraft from the team led by Boeing.
NASA/The Boeing Company
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Double-Bubble by MIT
This design was developed by the team from MIT. The aircraft is supposed to reduce drag and weight, and has a wide fuselage to provide extra lift. Although meant for domestic flights, the aircraft is to fly at mach 0.74 and be roomier than a Boeing 737.
NASA/MIT/Aurora Flight Sciences
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SELECT by Northrop Grumman
Developed by Northrop Grumman Systems the Silent Efficient Low Emissions Commercial Transport was created to look deceptively current day. However, it will employ ceramic composite materials and nanotechnology that will allow it to be used at smaller airports while still traveling at mach 0.75.
NASA/Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
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SUGAR Volt by Boeing
Another Boeing offering to NASA is the SUGAR Volt: a twin-engine plane with propulsion system that combines gas turbines and battery technology that will allow the aircraft to carry 154 passengers 5,600 kilometers at mach 0.79.
NASA/The Boeing Company
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'Green Supersonic Machine' by Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin designed this aircraft, which is intended to travel at supersonic speeds without producing deafening sonic booms. The 'inverted-V' engine along with other technologies will help achieve environmental and distance goals.
NASA/Lockheed Martin Corporation
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Icon-II by Boeing
The Icon-II was designed by Boeing to reduce sonic boom levels that will allow it to achieve supersonic flight over land. This is just one of two entries presented to NASA targeted to be airborne by 2030-2035.
NASA/The Boeing Company
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Hybrid Wing Body by MIT
This future aircraft designed by MIT is designed to be to fill loads similar to that of a Boeing 777. It uses advanced technologies to ferry 354 passengers 12,200 kilometers at mach 0.83.
NASA/MIT/Aurora Flight Sciences
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Design from Lockheed Martin
Artist's concept of an aircraft that could enter service in in the future from the team led by Lockheed Martin
Image credit: NASA/Lockheed Martin
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WhiteKnightTwo by Virgin Galactic
Is the future here? Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo flies over the first ever spaceport located in Upham, New Mexico. The aircraft travels at 3 times the speed of sound and stays in the upper atmosphere for four minutes of weightlessness before returning to earth.
AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan
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WhiteKnightTwo by Virgin Galactic
Owned by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic is charging $200,000 for a flight. Branson announced in October 2010 flights could start within 18 months. So far 390 people have reserved spaces.
AP Photo/Las Cruces Sun-News, Norm Dettlaff
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