High Speed Civil Transport
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The High Speed Civil Transport (HSCT) was a NASA project to design a supersonic transport. It was to be a future Supersonic Passenger Aircraft, able to fly Mach 2, or 2 times the speed of sound. The project started in 1990 and ended during 1999. The goal was to employ up-to-date technologies.
The aircraft was intended to cross the Atlantic or the Pacific Oceans in half the time of a non supersonic airplane. It was to be fuel efficient, carry 300 passangers, and it would have allowed customers to buy tickets a much lower cost than that of a ticket on a Concorde. The goal for its maiden fight was within 20 years. Its design sources were mostly based on the Tupolev Tu-144 [citation needed]
