The air transportation for the new millennium will require revolutionary solutions to meeting public demand for improving safety, reliability, environmental compatibility, and affordability. NASA's vision for 21st Century Aircraft is to develop propulsion systems that are intelligent, virtually inaudible (outside the airport boundaries), and have near zero harmful emissions (CO2 and Knox). This vision includes intelligent engines that will be capable of adapting to changing internal and external conditions to optimally accomplish the mission with minimal human intervention. The distributed vectored propulsion will replace two to four wing mounted or fuselage mounted engines by a large number of small, mini, or micro engines, and the electric drive propulsion based on fuel cell power will generate electric power, which in turn will drive propulsors to produce the desired thrust. Such a system will completely eliminate the harmful emissions. This paper reviews future propulsion and power concepts that are currently under development at NASA Glenn Research Center.


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    Title :

    Revolutionary Propulsion Systems for 21st Century Aviation


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Gas Turbine Congress ; 2003 ; Tokyo, Japan


    Publication date :

    2003-10-01


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





    Revolutionary Power and Propulsion for 21st Century Aviation

    Campbell, D. / AIAA / ICAS | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2003