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At 2,071 mph, Boeing’s 2707 was faster and bigger than Concorde — Congress killed it in 1971 by 1 vote and no American SST has flown since
Boeing’s 2707 supersonic transport was designed to fly at Mach 2.7 — 2,071 miles per hour — carrying up to 277 passengers, ...
This guest essay reflects the views of Daniel Serota, mayor of the Village of Brookville and chair of the Regional SST Oversight Coalition. Is Long Island destined to hear once more the approach of ...
A group of mayors from villages on the North Shore of Long Island have formed a coalition to participate in any future approvals process for a new breed of supersonic passenger jets. Brookville ...
After World War II, as early supersonic military aircraft were pushing the boundaries of flight, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that commercial aircraft would eventually fly faster than sound as ...
AFTER WEEKS OF rain and fog at Moscow’s Zhukovsky Airfield, site of the Soviet Union’s top flight test center, New Year’s Eve 1968 dawned with more of the same. This was immensely discouraging for ...
When a plane like the Concorde Jet is ahead of its time and doesn't ultimately last, it's more than simply a defunct project, it's a failed promise of the future, of what could have been. There was ...
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Boeing’s forgotten failure - the 2707 that was supposed to beat Concorde
The Boeing 2707 was America’s grand attempt to build a supersonic airliner bigger, faster, and more advanced than Concorde.
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