Sep 282008
Lockheed’s design for the SuperSonic Transport circa 1966 was the L-2000-7. In planform it was a pretty straightforward double-delta design (especially compared to the Boeing 2707-100, which featured variable geometry wings), but in detail featured a great many complex curves…
And here’s a larger version of the inboard profile:
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I remember a article about that design (or the swing-wing one) in a old “Wings” or “Airpower” magazine from the time… it was entitled “America’s Flying White House…Shot Down.”
Although it would be pretty uneconomical way of doing a “Looking Glass” aircraft, the thing might have had real potential as a Mach 3 bomber.
Lord knows, if you took all the passengers and the weight of their seats out of its innards, started replacing that mass with fuel and hydrogen bombs, and saved even more weight by having everything aft of the cockpit unpressurized, this sucker could give a B-70 a good run for the money in the strategic bomber catagory.
If nothing else, it sure was BIG, wasn’t it? 🙂
Ever see the prototype engines for that monster? It looked like you had strapped four Greyhound buses under the wings
Here’s a test of one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3zB-1q0eHI the monsters; this is the engine proper, not the huge tubular nacelle it was housed in.
Those would have been great to power a recoverable first stage of a two-stage-to-orbit vehicle.
Beautiful beast, ain’t she?
It’s interesting that they didn’t consider using down-sweeping wingtips and compression lift on it, like on the B-70.
Speed and altitude are right for making that work.
The Boeing 2707 just won with a few points over the Lockheed L-2000:
avery,very,very wrong choice!!!!!!!!!!!!