Impact of Advanced Air Transport Technology. Part IV: Financing and Program Alternatives for Advanced High-Speed Aircraft. Background Paper

摘要

This background paper examines the potential financial and managerial barriers to carrying out a large-scale program to create a new, long-range commercial air transport employing new technology. It evaluates the risks inherent in such a program and describes the structure and financing practices of the conventional aircraft industry. It is the fourth and final segment of a broad assessment of the economic, environmental, energy, societal, and safety aspects of technological advances that might occur in several types of transport aircraft. Specifically, it supplements the earlier OTA report, 'Impacts of Advanced Air Transport Technology: Part I--Advanced High-Speed Aircraft'.