Review and discussion of substantive to revolutionary concepts to enable a commercially viable, societally acceptable supersonic transport. Issues addressed include economic viability, take off noise, sonic boom, emissions and frontier aircraft configurations. Solution spaces include an enabler for most of the issues, which is doubling the lift-to-drag ratio. Approaches in most cases require serious further research for application to and optimization of frontier aircraft configurations.

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超音速运输优化概念


回顾和讨论实质性的革命性概念，以实现商业上可行、社会可接受的超音速运输。解决的问题包括经济可行性、起飞噪音、音爆、排放和前沿飞机配置。解决方案空间包括大多数问题的推动者，即将升阻比加倍。在大多数情况下，需要对前沿飞机配置的应用和优化进行认真的进一步研究。