NASA PRIZE

Two Indian students have won the second place for their Design of Transport Aircraft for the Future sponsored by the American space agency NASA. Ms R. Anusha and Mr S. Srinath from the College of Engineering under Anna University, Guindy, Chen nai have won the second place for their Design of Transport Aircraft for the Future.Fourteen teams and two individual students submitted their designs in the annual competition sponsored by NASA Fundamental Aeronautics Programme part of the agency's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate.The highest scoring graduate team was from Georgia Tech in Atlanta, USA. The contest asked students to create a future subsonic transport aircraft that could carry up to 50,000 pounds, operate on runways between 1,500 and 3,000 feet long, and cruise at speeds between 595 and 625 mph.