SST: Concorde V Boeing 2707 V Lockheed 2000

The three SST aircraft that never were successful.
The Boeing lost the government funding as did the Lockheed.
The Concorde was successfully launched on the 2nd March 1969 but sadly retired on the 26th November 2003. Meaning that it was only partially successful. Concorde was flying with four airlines. Two well known: British Airways & Air France! Also with: Singapore Airlines & Braniff (leased to these two airlines).

Concorde - 21
2707 - 5
2000 - 3

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[edscout07]

The closest the Boeing 2707 and the Lockheed L-2000 got to being built was life size wooden models which cost as much as a real Concorde! What really killed off the Boeing and Lockheed aircraft where Americas attempt to kill Concorde. They put any investors off the idea of super sonic aircraft.

[ConcordeCentral]

@edscout07 I dont quite understand how they put off investors?

[wbaiv]

All about money. Concorde and Tu-144 built using state-of-the-industry technology. Aluminum structure, Mach 2. Neither repaid r&d costs, tickets for Concorde only covered operating costs, Tu-144 had a very short service life, after fatal crash in central Asia. (Alma Alta?) ALL SST based on kerosene < $0.50 a gallon. None had range to cross Pacific supersonic- Europe to New York was the limit. Boeing's design could cross the Atlantic at Mach 3 but the 270-300 passengers couldn't take any luggage.

[ConcordeCentral]

@wbaiv Yes, it is a little sad that range was never improved. It would have been interesting to see the 2707 as the 747-8 is the longest passenger aircraft at the moment and it is still shorter than what the 2707 was to be. Thanks for the comment

[Triglavus]

@ConcordeCentral You are actually wrong. Range, low speed fly maneuverability, jet engine efficiency, landing & take off range, number of passengers... That all was the part of model "B" that was planned as next generation of Concorde. All those improvements were base of the information gathered from 001/002/101/102 pre-prodution planes. At the time 14 production aircrafts were made and airliners cancelled their aircrafts, all those plans were scrapped.

[ConcordeCentral]

@Triglavus I always thought the number of passengers would stay the same for both Concorde 'A' model and the 'B'

[bulletproof2353]

imagine that boeing and lockheed martin used to actually at least plan to make usefull technology likt the SST instead of raping the american people and only making technology used to make war and enslave people and to aid the police state

[chrisbryanprods]

@TheMoffBoy

no, whilst it has the largest pax number, the 747-8 and AN-225 are both longer whilst the H-4 Spruce Goose and AN-225 have a larger wingspan. It is however the tallest plane ever at 24.1m

visit wikipedia and search A380 for an image that visually represents these facts

[chrisbryanprods]

1:01 that is an ugly design

[TheMoffBoy]

@ConcordeCentral isnt the Airbus A380 the largest aircraft at the minute? In all dimesnsions?

[XiaoDanDragon]

Boeing can't make a replacement Concorde

[kofinp]

Isn't this fake?

[MrEiriku]

@thestig747 the cessnas max speed is mach 0.92 dumbass

[MattB613]

you seem to be forgetting the Russian SST

[ConcordeCentral]

@marcnistor4567 Ok thanks for the comment.