Beauty of Future Airplanes is More than Skin Deep

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/future_airplanes.html

NASA's goals for a 2030-era aircraft, compared with an aircraft entering service today, are:

• A 71-decibel reduction below current Federal Aviation Administration noise standards, which aim to contain objectionable noise within airport boundaries.
• A greater than 75 percent reduction on the International Civil Aviation Organization's Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection Sixth Meeting, or CAEP/6, standard for nitrogen oxide emissions, which aims to improve air quality around airports.
• A greater than 70 percent reduction in fuel burn performance, which could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the cost of air travel.
• The ability to exploit metroplex concepts that enable optimal use of runways at multiple airports within metropolitan areas, as a means of reducing air traffic congestion and delays.

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Future Aircraft Team Presentations for Subsonic Concepts
NOTE: These are large PDF files and, even on broadband, take a few moments to load.
The Boeing Company [PDF] → 
GE Aviation [PDF] → 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology [PDF] → 
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation [PDF] → 


or you can read them online:




Boeing
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35315468/Boeing-Future-Airplanes-Sugar-Phase-i-Final-Review-v5

Northrop
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35315204/Northrop-Grumman-Future-Aircrafts-Final-Report

General Electric
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35314682/General-Electric-Future-Airplanes-Final-Report-Out-4-22

MIT
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35314234/MIT-Future-Aircraft-Final-Presentation


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Airbus
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34780863/The-FUTURE-by-Airbus-Consumer-Report