The Boeing 2707 was an American supersonic passenger airliner project during the 1960s. After winning a competition for a government-funded contract to build an American supersonic airliner, Boeing began development at its facilities in Seattle, Washington. The design emerged as a large aircraft with seating for 250 to 300 passengers and cruise speeds of approximately Mach 3. It was intended to be much larger and faster than competing supersonic transport (SST) designs such as Concorde.
The SST was the topic of considerable concern within and outside the aviation industry. From the start, the airline industry noted that the economics of the design were questionable, concerns that were only partially addressed during development. Outside the field, the entire SST concept was the subject of considerable negative press, centered on the issue of sonic booms and effects on the ozone layer.
A key design feature of the 2707 was its use of a swing wing configuration. During development, the required weight and size of this mechanism continued to grow, forcing the team to switch to a conventional delta wing. Rising costs and the lack of a clear market led to its cancellation in 1971 before two prototypes had been complete.
The Boeing2707 was an American supersonic passenger airliner project during the 1960s. After winning a competition for a government-funded contract to...
November 1977 until a May 1978 crash, while a potential competitor, the Boeing2707, was cancelled in 1971 before any prototypes were built. On 25 July 2000...
turbojet engine was designed in the late 1960s as the powerplant for the Boeing2707 supersonic transport. The GE4 was a nine-stage, single-shaft, axial-flow...
Lockheed L-2000 and Boeing2707 designs, to produce an even more advanced, larger, faster and longer ranged design. The Boeing2707 design was eventually...
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Cruiser; the patent was granted in 2014. Aviation portal Boeing2707, a proposed earlier generation Boeing supersonic transport (SST) which was a response to...
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...
1971, Congress voted to discontinue funding for the development of the Boeing2707 supersonic transport (SST), the US's answer to the British-French Concorde...
program from the early 1970s (for the latter, see Lockheed L-2000 and Boeing2707.) While the Concorde and Tu-144 programs both yielded production aircraft...
associated with the tests partially influenced the 1971 cancellation of the Boeing2707 project and the United States' complete withdrawal from SST design.[citation...
issue was also a significant factor in the eventual cancellation of the Boeing2707. Shock waves develop around aircraft as they near Mach 1 (1225.0 km/h)...
the GE1/6 turbofan demonstrator for the TF39 engine the GE4 for the Boeing2707 supersonic airliner, and the GE9 engine for the USAF's Advanced Manned...
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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...
growing air traffic congestion around airports began to change that. The Boeing2707 was one of the earliest commercial aircraft designed with a glass cockpit...
his tenure as FAA administrator, he also was the lead proponent of the Boeing2707 Supersonic Jet. President Johnson signed Executive Order 11149 approving...
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and contributing to the cancellation of Concorde's American rival, the Boeing2707. Since the 1960's a number of techniques have been developed that may...
calculation, they found FMs of about 1.4 for Concorde and 1.9 for the Boeing2707. This eventually doomed most SST projects as public resentment, mixed...
held orders for the BAC-Aérospatiale Concorde, Sud Aviation Caravelle, Boeing2707, and the Airbus A330-300. The remaining A330 orders were eventually converted...
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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; Moses...
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