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NASA awards $16.5M to four teams for additional research into reducing aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise

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The teams first studied the ideas from October 2008 to April 2010. Cessna Aircraft Company-Cessna Citation, Wichita, Kan., NASA refers to this time period as N+3, representing technology three generations more advanced than what is in service today. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass., million, three years.

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