NASA Unveils Designs For Next Generation of Airplane

Nasa unvieled design for next generation of air cargo and air passenger planes. The single wide-wing designs show concepts of what cargo transportation may look like in 2025 and beyond. Accoring to TMP: The three designs -- from Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin -- are part of a set of contracts to study advanced concept designs for airplanes that will eventually replace the planes flown today. "Each design has to fly up to 85 percent of the speed of sound; cover a range of approximately 7,000 miles; and carry between 50,000 and 100,000 pounds of payload, either passengers or cargo" all while producing "less noise, cleaner exhaust and lower fuel consumption”. Read more here.