NASA makes new Concorde

- Faster than sound could fly again in a few years maybe. NASA, the aerospace agency of the United States, working on a supersonic airliner.

NASA aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin contract to develop the supersonic device. That should be quieter than its predecessors. The project is called Quiet Supersonic Technology, abbreviated QueSST. Lockheed Martin gets the next eighteen months converted more than 18 million for the initial design and experiments. Those ideas must then be used to further develop the device. Around 2020, the first test flight.

The aircraft will be about half the size of a conventional airliner. The form is not yet known, but NASA wants to get rid of the conventional design,, a tube with wings'. This innovation must,, fuel consumption, reduce emissions and noise. '

The Soviet Union was the first supersonic plane, the Tu-144 Toepolov. In the sixties built France and Britain, the Concorde, the famous fast plane. It made its first flight in 1969. Concorde reached a record speed of more than 1,900 kilometers per hour in 1996. A flight between New York and London thus lasted a few hours. However, a ticket was pricey. After a plane crash in Paris in 2000, because of rising fuel prices, the devices have been put to good on the ground.