Supersonic transport optimization concepts.

Review and discussion of substantive to revolutionary concepts to enable a commercially viable, societally acceptable supersonic transport. Issues addressed include economic viability, take off noise, sonic boom, emissions and frontier aircraft configurations. Solution spaces include an enabler for most of the issues, which is doubling the lift-to-drag ratio. Approaches in most cases require serious further research for application to and optimization of frontier aircraft configurations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]