Is NASA doing any studies on super-large civil aircraft like the Airbus Industrie A3XX?
I think several years ago many of the companies studied what the future might be, and each company has accepted a different set of understandings about today’s marketplace. Again, NASA interest is to develop the basic research for longer term work, perhaps ten years from now. This technology will support a new market view which perhaps the companies will have. Q. Does NASA do any studies on physically large aircraft, larger than that in service now? We have over the past three years within the NASA centres looked at very large aircraft, perhaps 800 to 1000 passengers. as a way to get more people through the airports. … to provide a basis for future projects five years from now. Q. Is NASA interested in scramjet technologies? Very much so. Again, scramjet technology is something very much of interest to us. If you remember a few years ago with the Air Force we had the X-30 project for the National Aerospace Plane. I think we found in that project that the understanding to be able to e
