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6 days ago | 4
Did my high school term paper in 1969 on SSTs. Too many problems for too little payback…
5 days ago
| 4
I did a term paper on this in eighth grade. I was an Air Force brat and I went into the project expecting to support it. By the time I had done my research, I was convinced that it was a mistake. Congress rightly pulled the plug on funding this project which would have been a money loser. Concorde only built 20 operational air frames plus six developmental aircraft that never flew in service. It always operated as a subsidy hog. It only made money if you exercise very peculiar accounting principles. Maybe they did not know it at the time, but Boeing dodged a bullet when they did not try to build the 2707 once Congress refused to fund it any further. The physics of sonic booms still has not been overcome, despite another half century of research efforts to solve the problem, and the American SST project would have been a black hole for money. When supersonic flight over land was banned the market for the design evaporated. France and Britain operated Concorde as a matter of pride, nothing more. And of the Tu-144 , nothing really needs to be said.
5 days ago (edited) | 13
YEAH MY DAD WAS ON THE LOCKHEED SSC MOCK-UP..... BUT THAT WAS SKUNK WORKS ALWAYS DOING SOMETHING
2 days ago | 1
Instead they basically banned Concorde for “environmental “ reason because the Americans couldn’t do what the Brits could .
6 days ago | 9
The US would have allowed supersonic transport across the US if the 2707 was a success.it easnt, so it was bannef Baby loser!
2 days ago | 1
A British engineer told me the Concord was originally designed to be a bomber.
3 days ago | 0
Boeing did the right thing. It wouldn't have made money.
4 days ago | 0
Have to laugh at everyone talking schitt about the Russian SST. At least theirs flew.
3 days ago | 0
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Boeing SST 2707, the scrapped U.S. Supersonic Airliner meant to challenge the European Concorde in the 70s.
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