The Boeing SST in its various guises seemed to be the future of civil aviation and the 747 was designed to be converted easily to cargo lifting when the 2707s arrived in the late 70s.
Even Air France and BOAC planned to operate them alongside the Concordes expected to be in service some years...
i found 2 sst designs , one made by spanish toy company Hojalata and one by an unknown chinese toy maker callet "st-1 rocket plane"
heres the chinese one.
And heres the spanish one.
Back in the 1960s Boeing was telling everyone that its Supersonic 2707 transport would be the must-have airliner for the 1970s.
Some 26 airlines took out options on the plane.
There is a comprehensive thread about the US designs on this site, but no illustrations of the artwork Boeing must have...
In the very first Thnunderbirds Episode "Trapped in the Sky" the London Airport building features the letters BAOC (based on the British Airways predecessor BOAC) as a rival to the Air Terrainean company who flew the Fireflash.
As a BOAC fan I always hoped to see the BAOC version. So 50 years...
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The Thunderbirds series from the 1960s featured in its first episode a wonderful airliner called Fireflash,
which was totally improbable but looked very cool.
In the series it crops up in a few episodes in the livery of "Air Terrainean", a sort of mixture of Pan American and BOAC.
However, in...
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The RAF wereallocated three Concordes from the so-called white tail fleet at Filton by the Callaghan Government in 1980. This surprise decision was nearly as much of a shock as the Labour Party's 1978 victory.
One of the aircraft was re-painted in the distinctive colours of the Queen's Flight...
Model of Myasishchev M-56 from USSR-Russian Aviation & Space Collectibles (Alex Panchenko).
Description:
Source:
http://www.ussr-airspace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=28_39_38_108&products_id=2005
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A pair of unbuilt Avro Canada projects from Canadian Aircraft Since 1909 by K.M. Molson (ISBN: 0370300955).
First, a 1955 design for a four-engined bizjet with CF-100 overtones. [Edit: presumably the "Small High-Speed Jet Transport" mentioned in Jim Floyd's summary of Avro Canada feasibilty...
Attached is a plan-view of a 1959 Avro Canada supersonic transport study. (From Canadian Aircraft Since 1909 by K.M. Molson, ISBN: 0370300955.) This STAT (Supersonic Trans-Atlantic Transport) study was listed as configuration 6, a transatlantic design carrying 80 passengers.
A number of online...
Over many years I have gathered together brochures and artwork (cards ads etc) for the Boeing SST
So far I have artwork for the following:
Airlift (photo of broken model from ebay)
Alitalia (drawing in brochure)
Braniff (image from Internet site)
Continental (photo of model in brochure-meatball...
Hi Hesham,
I don't think that can be called a project, as it says 'possible layout' in the picture. It's just some informed speculation on the part of the author.
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Hi,
The Japanese company NAMC YS-12 was developed from YS-11 but
powered by two Rolls Royce dart RDa 10s ,YS-31 was with two RDa 7s
and the YS-12-4 was with four RDa 10 engines.
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1959/1959%20-%203097.html?search=ys-12
Curious to know if Concorde was ever considered in a military role, maybe as a recce aircraft or cruise missile platform?
Would this have been feasible?
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