While many of us are busy debating a relations merits of pocket-sized record, NASA is mulling over ideas upon the most grander scale. Submitted as partial of the Administration’s research into advanced aeronautics, a above Lockheed Martin-designed aircraft is only one prophesy of how air transport competence be conducted in a destiny. It’s a supersonic jet employing an inverted-V engine-under-wing configuration, which apparently helps to significantly revoke a resultant sonic boom. Other than that, we’re only told which “other insubordinate technologies” will provide for a achievement of operation, payload and environmental goals. So which snazzy paintjob wasn’t only for show, after all — who’d have guessed?