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Published: 2008-09-06 07:37:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 1365; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 37
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overview of Boeing Model 2707 supersonic transport in company House Colors of the late 1960s timeframe. the Boeing project,which was the most likely and promising contender for actual production progressed only as far as the engineering mock-up stage,as did it,s competitors from Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas. North American also had a proposed airliner version of their Mach-3 XB-70 bomber,itself cancelled.Related content
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all moulded in fixed position. when Revell made their Boeing SST kit in 1968,it had 2 planes in the box,1 in low-speed mode with everything open and the other in fully swept supersonic configuration.
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wow rlly thts huge n its had a cruisin speed of Mach 3 but i guess it was kinda expensive
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too expensive,and no public support...that,and the skyrocketing fuel prices of 1973 all combined to seal it,s fate.
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The congress canceled the program due to the Tu-144 and Concorde fail. 
But this plane with its large capacity (300+ passengers) the ticket price should be 20% above the traditional subsonic planes price (Unlike the Concorde, wich became a expensive jet).
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cancelled for many other reasons as well...
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I remind also Alitalia put an order for this jet.
I wonder it shoulded be if it wasn't canceled...
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it would have been glorious!
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is it me or does the 2707 have the lines close to that of an F-14?
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must be those swing-wings....!
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its gotta be da wings
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and it would have worked too...blasted lack of funding!
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hell yea it woulda worked! It would have owned both the Concorde and the TU-144. As a matter of fact, they'd still be in use today, leaping across the Atlantic and Pacific in a couple hours flat! Thats one thing i hate about the Government. They're quick to fund some country and help raise them up but wont fund nothin that has to do wit making America's companies more productive.
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same with funding senseless,unwinnable wars too...
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no crazier than the Concorde...
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That plane looks so awesome! Shame it never got off the drawing board
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oh,for what might have been.....! just not enough funding to go around at the time.
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It would be awesome if it was around now
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absolutely....the 2707 would have beaten the Concorde and Tu-144 in all departments!
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But the Concorde would be a better plane in my opinion
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we,ll never know for sure now....
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I don't know how the USA air planes factories never have done a flyin' saucer at 60s, hehe.
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or did they? AREA 51......?
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a damn good looking design. I am curious as to how you built it and where you got the design. I would definitely love to have it in my collection in 1/144 scale or even 1/400 scale like a few other large aircraft I own
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it,s a reissue of an old Revell kit from 1968,and was available on a limited basis. the design was Boeing,s contender for the cancelled United States SST program of the 1960s. the kit came with 2 planes,one in low speed congiguration,and the other in full supersonic trim.
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you are definitely a lucky man to have found one of these kits. I have heard of the USA SST project, but it has been a good number of years now and I have since forgotten what the contenders looked like. Thank you for refreshing my memory.
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there were 4 mfgrs. with designs for the SST project,Boeing,s was the most ambitious,a large variable-geometry design,Douglas,s SuperJet had a tailed delta planform,the Lockheed L-2000 was a double-delta copied by the Soviets as the Tu-144 and North American proposed a civil version of their XB-70 experimental bomber.
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pity the sst was never made, it would've been a nice plane
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guaranteed the 2707 would have put both the Concorde and Tupolev to shame.....!
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had it ever been able to fly
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all it needed was the Green Light from Congress,and lots of US Greenback$$$$$.....such a project was just beyond the financial limits of private enterprise.
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yeah, it still would've been a neat plane
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just not enough money to go around at the time between funding the Apollo lunar program,and that Great War in Viet-Shitty-Nam that we just HAD to have....!
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people remembered all about the dirty little Vietnam war,but learned nothing from it,Iraq is just a repeat performance,sans a draft.
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yeah, no kidding! Bush said hes pulling out more troops, why dosen't he just take the damn hint and pull them ALL out!!!!
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indeed...! and BTW,Happy 9/11-Patriot Day...! gee,didn,t Chimpy say he was gonna get that SOB Bin Laden Dead-Or-Alive? Hello,Chimpy,it,s been 7 years after the fact,so what are you waiting for?
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Do not like the nose but I really like the design ^_^
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the nose was hinged to lower for pilot visibility only during low speed flight and ground handling,but it came to a needle-point for supersonic flight.
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same feature used on the Concorde and Tupolev SSTs as well.
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But they look better ^_^
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Tu-144 was simply a copy of the Lockheed L-2000 SST design.{double-delta wing planform}
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Well... There are a lot of copies if you talk about airplanes... ^_^
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especially from the Russians....such as that reverse-engineered B-29...
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