An Overview of NASA's High-Speed Research Program

Abstract

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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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA572142

Entities

People

  • Alan W. Wilhite
  • Robert J. Shaw

Organizations

  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Boundary Layer
  • Chemistry
  • Commercial Aircraft
  • Composite Materials
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Fish
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Materials
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Sonic Boom
  • Wind Tunnels

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster