APOD 1.6

 The Green Machine

Just recently I was accepted to the University of Central Florida, my first college choice, under the major of Aerospace Engineering. This picture on APOD just struck me as an amazing feat of human genius; someday I hope to be on a project team doing great things like this. 

This plane is designed to reach supersonic speeds while using a minimal amount of fuel, producing less pollution, and making less noise. The arch over the engines is called a Y-Wing, its function is to reduce the sound made by sonic booms created when reaching supersonic speeds.

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