NASA research program inspires retro aircraft designs

An 18-month NASA research effort to visualize the passenger airplanes of the future produced some ideas that at first glance appear to be out of an old 1950s aircraft magazine. Instead of exotic new space-age designs borrowed from science fiction, far more familiar shapes dominate advanced concept...

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