2020

SUnknownFuture Boeing Fleet - 797, Double Decker 787 and Mega 777X-10 - What Is Boeing's Next Aircraft...

Sun, Jan 19, 2020

Despite completing substantial upgrades over the years Beoing is flying some very old air frames, notable the 737. Others no longer fit airlines' newly adopted point-to-point model. So what's next for Boeing to become more up to date. Here are some possibilities.

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SUnknownBoeing Sonic Cruiser - The Answer to the Airbus A380 - Never Built

Sun, May 31, 2020

At the time of the Airbus A380 launch Boeing leaked news of its Sonic Cruiser design. Boeing was looking past the hub and spoke airline model to the new point to point model with a near mach one airliner. But there were some issues such as the plane flying so fast it arrived before the destination airport opened.

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SUnknownMeet the New Concorde - Virgin Galactic Mach 3.0 Supersonic Jet

Mon, Aug 03, 2020

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SUnknownThe Rise of Chinese Jets

Fri, Sep 18, 2020

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SUnknownAir Force One - Past Present and Future of the President's Private Plane

Fri, Nov 06, 2020

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SUnknownTriple Deck Planes, What Are They? And What Are They Like?

Sun, Dec 06, 2020

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SUnknownThe Most Luxurious Airline Ever... The Forgotten Story of MGM Grand Air

Wed, Feb 03, 2021

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SUnknownThe Other American Concorde SST no one remembers - Lockheed L-2000

Tue, Mar 09, 2021

There were two finalist in the United States competition for a supersonic transport to surpass the Concorde. Ultimately the selection committee chose the Boeing 2707 because it had more edgy technology over the Lockheed L-2000 which was deemed to safe and simple. Ironically, Boeing eventually abandoned the features that had won it the contract and failed to produce a flying prototype before funding was pulled.

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SUnknownBetter than the SR-71 - the Never Built Convair Kingfish, Fish and Super Hustler

Thu, Apr 01, 2021

Certainly the United States wouldn't build a new military airplane without a competitive alternative. Even the super secret SR-71 had a competitor, the Convair Kingfish. Initially Convair's plan was a air launched ramjet launched form a B-58 Hustler. But it was deemed too complex. So it was already a bit behind when it proposed the Kingfish that was theoretically faster than the SR-71. But Conveir lost out to Lockheed's experience with super secret aircraft and its Skunkworks secure production facility.

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SUnknownThis Plane Is Cursed - The Forgotten Flying Wing

Tue, Jun 15, 2021

To create a trans-Atlantic strategic bomber require by the United States Air Force to deal with Nazi Germany Jack Northrup envisioned a plane that eliminated the high drag fuselage and tail leaving just the high lift wing - a flying wing. But this radical concept proved to be more than the Air Force bureaucracy cared to deal with.

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SUnknownIs the Lockheed SR 72 Son of the Blackbird Already Flying?

Wed, Jun 30, 2021

Scheduled to enter service in 2025 the long awaited replacement for the SR-71 Blackbird is well into development. It is reported to be a mach 6 hypersonic aircraft with a combination turbine/scram-jet engine referred to as 'turbine based combine cycle propulsion system'. Both piloted and pilotless versions are rumored as is the ability to launch hypersonic missiles.

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SUnknownThe Secret Race to Build a Nuclear Powered Bomber

Mon, Jul 05, 2021

In 1958 a false rumor of a Soviet nuclear powered airplane caught the United States Air Force off guard. Needless to say that lead to a long list of aircraft designs and testing and, of course, the Navy couldn't be left out. This flurry of action got the Soviet's into the nuclear aircraft race for real this time. Here is a catalog of all the plans and designs that were considered.

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SUnknownThis Plane Doesn't 'Exist'... Aurora Top Secret Spy Plane SR-91

Tue, Jul 13, 2021

The SR-91 Aurora is a rumored triangle shaped, hyper-sonic, spy plane developed in the 1990s. A number of people report they have seen an aircraft that matches the Aurora's description though in same cases they may have seen the flying-wing deigned B-2 Spirit bomber. Here's a rundown on was is suspected.

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SUnknownThe Secret Anti-Gravity Spy Plane - TR3b Black Manta

Sun, Aug 22, 2021

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SUnknownNavy's Biggest Mistake - Cancelling the Martin P6M SeaMaster

Mon, Sep 06, 2021

The Martin-P6M Seamaster was a jet powered flying boat and the United States Navy's initiative to get back into the strategic bombing mission taken over by the Air Force's Boeing B-52. Despite crashes of the prototypes, several production planes were built and operated successfully. But it was abruptly canceled in favor of the Polaris submarine program.

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SUnknownThe Nazi Bomber Made to Destroy New York - The Horten H.XVIII 18 Flying Wing America Bomber

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

One of Adolf Hitler's obsessions was destroying New York City. To that end the Reichsluftfahrtministerium was looking for a intercontinental strategic bomber. There were a few designs that might have worked early in the war. But as World War Two turned against Germany only the Horten Brother flying wing concept was up to the challenge.

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SUnknownThe Flying Pancake - Slowest Plane Ever Built

Sat, Nov 13, 2021

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SUnknownReal Life Snowpiercer - The Insane Giant Nazi Railway - Breitspurbahn

Tue, Dec 07, 2021

Adolf Hitler, always a lover of big machines, hatched a scheme for a deluxe railway, the Breitspurbahn, running throughout Europe (which was to become Grater Germany). Encouraged by designer Fritz Todt it would be double the standard gauge to accommodate theaters, swimming pools and probably though giant tanks Hilter liked so much.

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SUnknownCaught on Camera - The US Navy UFO

Fri, Dec 17, 2021

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SUnknownWhy America Built a Two-Seater Mustang...

Mon, Dec 20, 2021

Twin fuselage aircraft have advantages in capacity and range but at the price of complexity and size. Still many double fuselage aircraft have and are being designed and a few have flown. The most successful so far is North American's P-82 Twin Mustang.

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SUnknownThe First Boeing Jetliner - 707

Tue, Dec 28, 2021

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SUnknownNazi Super Tank - P-1000 Rattle

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

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SUnknownThe Real Life X-Wing Fighter - Soviet Sukhoi Shkval

Mon, Feb 14, 2022

When you work in an environment where budgets are stretched, competitors are smart, consequences are severe and who you know matters more than what you know making a name for yourself to start a career is tough. An innovative new design might do the trick setting the scene for the Sukhoi Shkval.

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SUnknownBoeing's Answer to the Airbus A380 - Sonic Cruiser

Wed, Apr 13, 2022

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SUnknownThe King of all helicopters - The Massive Mi-32

Fri, Jun 10, 2022

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SUnknownWhy you never got to fly on the American Wingship (tm)!

Sun, Jul 17, 2022

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SUnknownThe Future of Air travel is horrifying

Thu, Jul 28, 2022

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SUnknown900 Passenger Super Jet - The Lockheed Very Large Plane

Mon, Nov 07, 2022

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SUnknownWhat ever happened to cargo submarines?

Tue, Nov 22, 2022

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SUnknown15 Never Built Commercial Planes we nearly got

Wed, Nov 30, 2022

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SUnknownThe F-15 Silent Eagle: An Upgrade in Stealth and Power

Tue, Dec 06, 2022

In the age of stealth the iconic F-15 Eagle is one of the biggest targets in the sky. Boeing set out to fix that and came up upgrades that made it competitive with anything then flying. But in 2010 no one was really interested.

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SUnknownTop-Secret Soviet Black Projects You Have Never Heard of!

Tue, Dec 20, 2022

Soviet aviation engineers developed several innovative design concepts that never made it to production but a few yielded flying prototypes.

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SUnknownThe Insane Russian Concrete Monorail

Mon, Dec 26, 2022

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SUnknownWhy the Soviet answer to the F-16 failed - MiG 29 story

Thu, Jan 19, 2023

Though it looks similar to the Mig 25 Foxbat, Mikoyan's MiG-29 Fulcrum was built from the ground up to counter the aircraft built by NATO to counter the MiG 25. The plane didn't work out so well but it is seeing something of a rebirth as the Mig-35 using the same airframe.

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