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Title: NASA RESEARCH TOWARDS VERY-HIGH-SPEED TRANSPORTS
Accession Number: 00470899
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Increased NASA and DOD research efforts are being directed to the key technologies for hypersonic and transatmospheric flight: airbreathing propulsion systems that can function efficiently from takeoff to near-orbital velocities, lightweight materials, thermal structures which can withstand exposure to extreme heat during ascent and descent or during sustained hypersonic flight, and new computational tools for the analysis of the highly-integrated airframe and propulsion systems. These technologies will be tested in an experimental X-30 aircraft planned for flight testing in the early 1990s. The technology validated with the X-30 may lead to the development of civil hypersonic transports as well as new operational airbreathing aerospace vehicles that can take off from conventional airport runways, fly between 6 and 25 times the speed of sound to the edge of the earth's atmosphere or even into orbit, and return to conventional runways.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Circular No. 333, Outlook for Commercial Supersonic and Hypersonic Transport Aircraft. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Rosen III, C CPagination: p. 52-56
Publication Date: 1988-7
Serial: Media Type: Digital/other
TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Aviation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Vehicles and Equipment
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Aug 31 1988 12:00AM
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