Saturday, 29 September 2012

Future Airplane Designs

An Iconic Idea

The Icon-II is a design for supersonic flight over land that comes from Boeing. Apart from fulfilling the specifications, it also reduces fuel consumption and airport noise.

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 Green Supersonic Machine 

Green Supersonic Machine

This concept design by Lockheed Martin is one that the company presented to NASA in April of last year and is designed for overland supersonic flight. It showed that by using the inverted V engine under the wing configuration, one can really lower the level of supersonic booms.
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The Boeing Company

Blended Wing

These blended wing concept aircraft are from Boeing and one of the three that was shown to NASA when the contract awards were granted in the fall.

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X-45A UCAV

X-45A UCAV

The UCAV air vehicle was unveiled at a special exhibition in Missouri, along with two other elements of the UCAV system, a mission control and air vehicle storage system.

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The Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research, or SUGAR

The Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research, or SUGAR

SUGAR is a Boeing concept aircraft presented in April 2010 that stands for Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research. It combines gas and battery technology.



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Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin, Fall

Lockheed Martin's concept plane this fall doesn't look so different on the outside except for the wing structure being all one, but it is revolutionary inside, as are all the others.


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