The "Icon-II" future aircraft design concept for supersonic flight over land comes from the team led by The Boeing Company.
The “Icon-II” future aircraft design concept for supersonic flight over land comes from the team led by The Boeing Company.
A design that achieves fuel burn reduction and airport noise goals, it also achieves large reductions in sonic boom noise levels that will meet the target level required to make supersonic flight over land possible.
This concept is one of two designs presented in April 2010 to the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate for its NASA Research Announcement-funded studies into advanced supersonic cruise aircraft that could enter service in the 2030-2035 timeframe.Read about all six teams’ design concepts in the article, “Beauty of Future Airplanes is More than Skin Deep.”Image credit: NASA/The Boeing Company