Pics Future plane Designs for 2025 Unveiled by NASA

Given that we are unlikely to get past 2012, perhaps it's churlish to even think of what 2025 might look like.
However, the indelible optimists at NASA have revealed images of commercial aircraft designs that might well take to the air, should 2025 actually materialize.
It seems that in the darker parts of 2010, NASA gave Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Brumman money to ponder what improvements might be made to our current aerial cattle carriers.
The initial designs, published on NASA's own site, will make some drool and a few, perhaps, shiver.
For at least two of them make me think of, well, war--specifically, military aircraft--while the third seems plain peculiar.

Just a little like a Stealth Bomber?

(Credit: NASA/Boeing)

Engine at the back? Um, never liked that.

(Credit: NASA/Lockheed Martin)

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