The game changer in civil aviation will be the inevitable advent of liquid hydrogen-fuelled supersonic airliners. Kochi, by way of its geographical position, could cash in on the opportunity to become the supersonic capital of the world in future, argues an eminent academic in aerospace. Thrissur-born Dr Narayanan Komerath, Professor at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering under the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta who has three US patents and over 250 publications to his credit, believes that eastern hemisphere demographics, economics, energy and carbon issues have titled the future of aviation heavily in favour of supersonic airliners, but hydrocarbon-fuelled supersonic flight is no doubt unviable.
Source: Hindu
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