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Researchers from Cal-Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California recently tested a future aircraft
concept model called AMELIA – the Advanced Model for Extreme Lift and Improved Aeroacoustics.
The 1/11th scale model with a 10-foot wingspan was tested in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex
at the Ames Research Center. AMELIA is designed as an efficient,
150-passenger airliner capable of short takeoffs and landings.
We’re hoping, targeting ‘N plus 2’, so maybe 2020 or something like that we can have the technologies
needed at the readiness level so that industry can pick it up and maybe put a vehicle like this on the market.
Testing of AMELIA was conducted for NASA’s Fundamental Aeronautics Program.