NASA Moving Forward on X-Planes Development Project
NASA is requesting a 24-percent bump in its aeronautics research budget that would fund both supersonic and subsonic X-Planes.
Building a series of experimental aircraft, or “X-planes,” that are fueled by green energy, use half the fuel and are only half as loud, as well as the world’s first supersonic X-plane with quiet sonic booms, is an ambitious element in the FY 2017 budget for NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. (Image: NASA)
