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BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL


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Report To The Congress

OF THE UNITED STATES



A Look At NASA's Aircraft Energy Efficiency

Program



Four years ago the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) initiated the
Aircraft Energy Efficiency program to provide
by 1985 the technology for making future
transport aircraft up to 50 percent more fuel
efficient than today's aircraft. Thus far, NASA
has helped the aircraft industry to improve
its current and derivative aircraft, and the pro-
gram offers continued promise that future
aircraft will be significantly more fuel effi-
cient.

The original goals of the program were
highly optimistic. Several technologies offering
significant fuel efficiency opportunities prob-
ably will not be ready for several years after
1985, and estimated costs have risen signifi-
cantly.

There is a need for


--NASA to adopt a standard format for
concisely and consistently reporting
the status of major aeronautical pro-
grams to the Congress and


--an aeronautics
clarify its role.


policy which would


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  PSAD-80-50
JULY 28, 1980

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