MOSCOW. Dec 11 (Interfax-AVN) - Specialists from the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TSAGI) are working on a project to create a hypersonic passenger plane, the institute's press service said, citing Sergei Chernyshev, the general director of TSAGI and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who gave a lecture at the United Aircraft Corporation.
"The high-capacity long-haul aircraft Letayushcheye Krylo [Flying Wing], which has innovative prop-composite structure, a supersonic business plane with an unsurpassed level of comfort, a hypersonic passenger airliner capable of making a Trans-Atlantic flight in two hours - these are just some of the many areas on which TSAGI scientists are working," the statement released on Monday said.
It is evident that these tasks are enormous and seem at first sight too ambitions, but they are feasible, Chernyshev said in his lecture. "Our traditionally strong schools of aerodynamics and structural engineering, our extensive experience of testing and unique experimental base will help solve them," he said.