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...Boeing is currently heading a U.S. industrial team that has 440 million dollars from High Speed Research (HSR) II to investigate the feasibility of an airframe and structure for the HSCT program," Harrison adds...
...goal of HSR is to investigate enabling technologies to answer eventually the ability to decide whether to proceed with the design of HSCT," Harrison says. "It must be environmentally benign and economically viable. Currently, the technological barriers are very significant...
...currently have no cost projections for the project, but we know that a HSCT will not fly before 2005 and we are shooting for a price in agreement with subsonic aircraft of the day," Harrison says. The most expensive subsonic aircraft flying today, Boeing's 747, costs around 150 million dollars, he said...
Flyers willing to pay the higher price, Harrison says, would recoup their investment in time saved. He offers the example of a flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo that takes 10.3 hours today, but would take only 4.3 hours in an HSCT...
...even Boeing's resources may not be enough to develop a project of HSCT's size. "We do not believe it will be possible for any one company to do this alone," Harrison says...