Washington -- Eight U.S. college students have summer jobs at NASA this year as a result of their participation in a competition to design a supersonic airliner.
College students from the U.S., Japan and India researched technology and created concepts for a supersonic passenger jet as part of the competition sponsored by the Fundamental Aeronautics Program in NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate.
NASA said each participant was asked to design a small supersonic airliner and submit a research paper limited to 25 pages. Designs had to be for an efficient, environmentally friendly, low sonic boom commercial aircraft that could be ready for initial service by 2020.
