The major challenges confronting the propulsion community for civil supersonic transport applications are identified: high propulsion system efficiency at both supersonic and subsonic cruise conditions, low-cost fuel with adequate thermal stability at high temperatures, low noise cycles and exhaust systems, low emission combustion systems, and low drag installations. Both past progress and future opportunities are discussed in relation to perceived technology shortfalls for an economically successful airplane that satisfies environmental constraints.
Challenges and Opportunities of Supersonic Transport Propulsion Technology
1988
18 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Supersonic propulsion technology
NTRS | 1979
|Supersonic transport propulsion requirements
Engineering Index Backfile | 1961
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