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Originally Posted by tcar

The skunk on the tail would indicate Lockheed-Martin. Not a NASA design.

Some captions are label that way, even on NASA's own website.

From another site:
NASA team considers supersonic airliner for next X-plane

An artist's concept shows Lockheed Martin's low-boom supersonic airliner. (Courtesy: NASA)

NASA team considers supersonic airliner for next X-plane

A photo shows a wind tunnel test earlier this year of the Boeing Icon II design at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. (Courtesy: NASA)

Meanwhile, start-up company Aerion and Gulfstream continue to work independently on supersonic business jets which could be ready to enter service within a decade

http://www.aviationweek.com/Blogs.aspx?plckBlogId=Blog:7a78f54e-b3dd-4fa6-ae6e-dff2ffd7bdbb&plckPostId=Blog:7a78f54e-b3dd-4fa6-ae6e-dff2ffd7bdbbPost:acd33851-2d1d-4dc4-b53d-2a540f4b37cc


McCain on Supersonics
Posted by Graham Warwick 4:22 PM on Dec 11, 2009
http://www.aviationweek.com/Blogs.aspx?plckBlogId=Blog:a68cb417-3364-4fbf-a9dd-4feda680ec9c&plckPostId=Blog:a68cb417-3364-4fbf-a9dd-4feda680ec9cPost:07856d18-29c1-411d-aa9f-6f6c9af19b3d

Senator John McCain, former Presidential candidate and anti-pork crusader, has taken a pot-shot at NASA for awarding Lockheed Martin $4.7 million in stimulus money "to develop supersonic corporate jet travel". I have a couple of problems with this. The first is a point of accuracy: the contract actually involves a small 35- to 70-passenger supersonic airliner, not a business jet.