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For now, however, we do get to look forward to Airbus’ hydrogen-powered BWB aircraft that might see introduction as early as the late 2030s. In what would outclass any modern passenger plane, the Tu-404 was the proposed idea for a wide-boy, double-decker, blended-wing body aircraft with a mindblowing capacity for over 1,200 passengers in an all-economy configuration and a range similar to that of a Boeing 747-400. Perhaps the most ambitious concept was the Tupolev Tu-404. Still, we don’t have a proper BWB passenger plane despite some designs. Various military examples of BWB-type aircraft have been produced, like Lockheed’s A-12 and YF-12, Northrop Grumman’s Bat, and, if you count variable-sweep wings, Rockwell’s B-1 Lancer and the Tupolev Tu-160. Passenger Blended Wing Body (BWB) Aircraft Maybe the next generation of supersonic airliners will arrive before the turn of the decade. However, all is not lost for a US-built supersonic passenger aircraft, as Boom Supersonic presses on with its Overture program, recently announcing critical supplier and engine details at this year’s Paris Air Show. Alas, within a decade, funding for the supersonic transporter was cut, and Concorde would be introduced later in the mid-1970s.

Notably, the Lockheed L-2000 and Boeing 2707 went head to head for a government contract in the 1960s, with Boeing coming out on top. On the lines of commercial aircraft, multiple manufacturers from the United States sought to design a product similar to the European-built Concorde. However, in 1954, General Electric put a nuclear-powered engine to the test for over 100 hours under the idea that the energy (heat) created by the reaction could generate thrust, keeping an aircraft in the skies for days to weeks. Very similarly, test flights did take place, though not with the nuclear reactor powering the aircraft. The Russian version of this was the Tupolev Tu-95LAL, an experimental modified Tu-95 strategic bomber. Convair once produced an example of the NB-36H, featuring a shielded nuclear reactor though not connected to the engines, as an experiment to see if such a feat was safe. US and Russian programs to develop aircraft with reactors onboard were once conceptualized, though never particularly materialized. Submarines are notable for their ability to stay underwater for long periods of time, thanks in part to nuclear power.

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