This image illustrates the kind of process that teams of industry and academia researchers used to come up with their select design concepts to meet environmental and performance goals set by NASA's ARMD.
Coming up with a solution to meet a variety of challenges often requires starting with many and narrowing it down to just a few. This image illustrates the kind of process that teams of industry and academia researchers used to come up with their select design concepts to meet environmental and performance goals set by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate for commercial aircraft that could be flying in 20 to 25 years.Read about all six teams’ design concepts in the article, “Beauty of Future Airplanes is More than Skin Deep.”Image credit: NASA/Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation