The Boeing 2707 was an American supersonic passenger airliner project during the 1960s. After winning a competition for a government-funded contract to...
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November 1977 until a May 1978 crash, while a potential competitor, the Boeing 2707, was cancelled in 1971 before any prototypes were built. On 25 July 2000...
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narrowbody airliner. Boeing 2707 – supersonic airliner, canceled Boeing 7J7 – high-efficiency propfan airliner, canceled Boeing 747-300 Trijet – high-efficiency...
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supersonic airliner in the 1960s. The L-2000 lost the contract to the Boeing 2707, but that competing design was ultimately canceled for political, environmental...
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turbojet engine was designed in the late 1960s as the powerplant for the Boeing 2707 supersonic transport. The GE4 was a nine-stage, single-shaft, axial-flow...
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Lockheed L-2000 and Boeing 2707 designs, to produce an even more advanced, larger, faster and longer ranged design. The Boeing 2707 design was eventually...
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United Kingdom – Bristol Type 223 United States – Convair Model 58-9, Boeing 2707, Lockheed L-2000, Douglas 2229, SAI Quiet Supersonic Transport, High...
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Cruiser; the patent was granted in 2014. Aviation portal Boeing 2707, a proposed earlier generation Boeing supersonic transport (SST) which was a response to...
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envisioned larger trans-Atlantic aircraft and led to the likes of the Boeing 2707, the Super-Caravelle was a much smaller, shorter range design intended...
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1971, Congress voted to discontinue funding for the development of the Boeing 2707 supersonic transport (SST), the US's answer to the British-French Concorde...
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issue was also a significant factor in the eventual cancellation of the Boeing 2707. Shock waves develop around aircraft as they near Mach 1 (1225.0 km/h)...
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Handley Page HP.115 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Boeing 2707 Lockheed L-2000 Tupolev Tu-144 Anderson, John D. (2011). Introduction...
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redesign of Overture into a quadjet, to closely resemble the unsuccessful Boeing B-2707-300 design from the 1970s. A major change is that the new design features...
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associated with the tests partially influenced the 1971 cancellation of the Boeing 2707 project and the United States' complete withdrawal from SST design.[citation...
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program from the early 1970s (for the latter, see Lockheed L-2000 and Boeing 2707.) While the Concorde and Tu-144 programs both yielded production aircraft...
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Airliners Boeing 2707 Bristol Type 223 Convair Model 58-9 Douglas 2229 High Speed Civil Transport LAPCAT Lockheed L-2000 North American NAC-60 Rockwell...
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Airliners Boeing 2707 Bristol Type 223 Convair Model 58-9 Douglas 2229 High Speed Civil Transport LAPCAT Lockheed L-2000 North American NAC-60 Rockwell...
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his tenure as FAA administrator, he also was the lead proponent of the Boeing 2707 Supersonic Jet. President Johnson signed Executive Order 11149 approving...
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and contributing to the cancellation of Concorde's American rival, the Boeing 2707. Since the 1960's a number of techniques have been developed that may...
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calculation, they found FMs of about 1.4 for Concorde and 1.9 for the Boeing 2707. This eventually doomed most SST projects as public resentment, mixed...
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Airbus A330-300 Boeing 747-400 Boeing 757-200 Boeing 757-300 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40 Boeing 727-51 Boeing 727-251 McDonnell...
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current model. For instance, while "the most popular" aircraft, such as Boeing 737 and 747 were introduced in 1960x, their recent models were revealed...
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Tu-444 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Concorde Boeing 2707 Lockheed L-2000 Related lists List of jet airliners See contemporary...
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Airliners Boeing 2707 Bristol Type 223 Convair Model 58-9 Douglas 2229 High Speed Civil Transport LAPCAT Lockheed L-2000 North American NAC-60 Rockwell...
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growing air traffic congestion around airports began to change that. The Boeing 2707 was one of the earliest commercial aircraft designed with a glass cockpit...
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the GE1/6 turbofan demonstrator for the TF39 engine the GE4 for the Boeing 2707 supersonic airliner, and the GE9 engine for the USAF's Advanced Manned...
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Airliners Boeing 2707 Bristol Type 223 Convair Model 58-9 Douglas 2229 High Speed Civil Transport LAPCAT Lockheed L-2000 North American NAC-60 Rockwell...
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000 sq ft (4,900 m2) Hiller Aviation Museum opened on 5 June 1998. The Boeing 2707 mockup, which had been on display at the museum since it opened, left...
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instead planned to be used for the conceptual 2707 supersonic airliner. Among the sites considered by Boeing for a new factory were Monroe, Washington; McChord...
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Lockheed A-12 and SR-71 were also mainly titanium, as was the cancelled Boeing 2707 Mach 2.7 supersonic transport. Because heat-resistant titanium is hard...
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