Unbuilt, experimental and unusual Boeing 747s

Not going with the original concept arguably cost Boeing quite a few customers in the long term, especially given how the market evolved.

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sgeorges4 said:
747 8F freighter concept (some antenna seem to have their location change)


Boeing 747 Aircraft Airliner Facts, Dates, Pictures and History - New Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental

Boeing 747 - New Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - Movies, Reference, Facts, Pictures & Videos of Aircraft, Airlines, Airplanes & Flight.
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I wonder when in the process Boeing decided to change the size and position of the horizontal stabilizer on the 747-8. I've never seen anything about a design change, but the ACAPS documentation shows a different span and a different overhang beyond the fuselage.
 
747 Advanced Tanker/Oversized Cargo Aircraft "ATOCA"

A growth version of the -200F competing in the ATCA program against the KC-10; the flight deck would have been raised 48 inches and be provided with a new large cargo door and improved tanker boom. It seems like it was proposed to supplement the C-5 or potentially replace it if the repair program failed, truly a shame it was not adopted.

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Hearings Before and Special Reports Made by Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on Subjects Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments

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Hopefully this website might help:


747-400XQLR - Quiet Long Range

This site is all about the Boeing 747 from the early history of the 747-100 to the current 747-8i and the experimental planes.
www.boeing-747.com www.boeing-747.com


It also includes other unbuilt variants and projects like the Cruise Missile Carrier Aircraft (CMCA), the Airborne Aircraft Carrier (AAC), the KC-33, etc.
 
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www.wearethemighty.com

This was the Air Force's plan to turn a Boeing 747 into an airborne aircraft carrier

An airborne aircraft carrier--The stuff of science fiction? Well, yes, but not as unrealistic as you might think.
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Hello,
I post here some of my illustrations that I published in Le Fana de l'Aviation a few years ago on the same topic. Sorry, I do not remember the article reference (it was in French). We chose to depict only 1 potential fighter configuration among many.
Regards
Alain
 

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" Boeing forecasts the need for about 900 airplanes -- passengers and freighters -- in the 400-plus-seat segment over the next 20 years. Boeing also forecasts that large widebody freighters (65 metric tons and above in capacity) will comprise 34 percent of the freighter market by 2024. "
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Boeing Launches New 747-8 Family

The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today officially launched the new Boeing 747-8 program, which includes the 747-8 Intercontinental passenger airplane and the 747-8 Freighter airplane. Cargolux, based...
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so many what if possibility here,was the 747 800X verry different from the 8i? (planning to use the zvezda 747 for this one)
 
hesham said:
Dronte said:
In view of the material already presented in the forum this topic will surely motivate enough crossposting but I believe that the topic deserves to take their own place.

-A 90's proposal of GE for a Super-AWACS. A wind tunnel model existed but I have not gotten pictures of the same one.
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Here is a Model and drawing to Super-AWACS project
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Here photos from AWST Nov 1990.
 

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Would this variant have been used to warn of incoming missile threats as well? The radar seems a tad bit large for normal "day-to-day" AWACS.
 
One thing that the article doesn't mention is that a Japan Air Lines requirement also played a major role in the creation of the SP variant (in some sources the Japanese request actually preceded the Pam Am/Iran Air request).
 
From the link above :
Perhaps more dangerous would be the Soviet reaction. They’d be in a constant state of freaking out every time one of these took to the sky, and they probably would have difficulty telling an MC-747 from an E-4 or a civilian 747. And, of course, they’d have to have their own. the AN-124 would be the logical choice for an ICBM carrier, and chances are good they’d do as good of a job with it as they did with Chernobyl, the Kursk or the Polyus.
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So true.
 

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