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News 9/05/2006   

Japan wants NASA to help build supersonic jet
BYLINE
 
Japan's space agency wants to forge an alliance with NASA in order to develop a supersonic aircraft capable of flying between Tokyo and Los Angeles in three hours.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has been forced to look for a partner after its efforts to build a successor to the Concorde ran into a number of technical problems.

The JAEA said its researchers and engineers would meet with NASA in June to investigate opportunities to work together.

The organisation is hoping to have the aircraft fully operational by 2025.

The supersonic plane would use a scramjet engine designed to travel at speeds of up to 10 times the speed of conventional aircraft.

9 May 2006


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