Boeing expert says Mach 2.4 HSCT may be impracticably fast
Thermomechanical stresses on airframe leading edges cruising at Mach 2.4 may be too much for an economically viable passenger aircraft to handle, so the materials community at Boeing wants management and NASA to throttle back to Mach 2 for the prospective High Speed Civil Transport, says a top...
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