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    Boeing 747 Advanced Surveillance & Tracking Technology (ASTT)

    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.
    • Dronte
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    • 1980s 1990s air defence awacs boeing cold war cruise missile defence post-cold war radar strategic defence united states united states air force
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    Unbuilt, experimental and unusual Boeing 747s

    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...
    • Dronte
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    • advanced cargo transport aircraft advanced tanker cargo aircraft program air launched cruise missile air-launched ballistic missile airlifter airliner awacs boeing civil aviation cold war experimental plane imperial iranian air force military airlift command nasa strategic air command testbed transonic transport aircraft united states united states air force
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  3. boxkite

    SOR 206 : E-3 AWACS competitors

    Hi, it's my first day at the forum. So I want to ask for a very ordinary subject. Besides the later winner of the AWACS competition, the Boeing EC-137D (early_awacs_2.jpg shows an early configuration with radome mounted on the tip of the tail), there was another competitor, a DC-8 development...
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    • adcom aerospace defense command air force systems command awacs boeing cold war douglas aircraft company early 1970s general electric hughes aircraft company late 1960s lockheed mcdonnell douglas north atlantic treaty organisation raytheon tactical air command united states united states air force western electric (weco) westinghouse electric corporation
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  4. overscan (PaulMM)

    ADO-12 to "US-FRG" AVS V/STOL Fighter Programs

    A joint US-German VSTOL fighter project. Here we have a 3 view of an early configuration and an isometric cutaway of a later version with modified air intakes.
  5. flateric

    Boeing LOBOY Anti-submarine WIG, 1965

    In the mid-1960s, the Boeing Company published a study for a concept of LOBOY, a wing-in-ground effect ASW aircraft. This concept was unusual because the vehicle had a wing aspect ratio of 12, much greater than conventional WIGs with aspect ratios of from 1 to 5. Also, the wings did not have end...
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    Lockheed P-38 Lightning Competitors

    Lockheed P-38 Lightning Competitors In 1936 the US Army Air Corps (USAAC) put out a tender for a ‘Twin-engine, High Altitude Interceptor’ that was designated as ‘X-608’ The winner of this competition would be the Lockheed Model 22 / P-38 Lightning. But does anyone know of the proposals to...
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    • boeing consolidated aircraft corporation curtiss-wright airplane division curtiss-wright corporation douglas aircraft company heavy fighter hughes aircraft company interceptors interwar period late 1930s lockheed lockheed aircraft corporation pre-world war ii united states army air corps vultee aircraft corporation
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    • Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects
  7. overscan (PaulMM)

    Air-launched Boeing and Lockheed "Micro Fighters"

    Boeing Microfighter concepts
  8. flateric

    Boeing Sonic Cruiser aka 'Project 20XX' aka 'Project Glacier'

    I'm interested in Sonic Cruiser iterations 3-views, if any were published (AFAIK, design was very touchy security question for a long). I have all images from Cruiser-related 3 or so Boeing's patents, but want something more accurate. Thanks.
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    • airliner boeing civil aviation early 2000s early 21st century late 1990s late 20th century united states war on terror
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  9. GTX

    Boeing Flying Wing concepts from the mid 1930s

    Hi folks, Here are some Boeing Flying Wing concepts from the mid 1930s. They are all variations of the same theme and come under the Model 306 designation: First the Heavy Bomber: Regards, Greg
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    • 1930s airliner boeing bomber bomber destroyer civil aviation fighters flying boat flying wing heavy bomber heavy fighter interwar period pursuit aircraft united states united states army air corps
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    • Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects
  10. Sentinel Chicken

    NEWS: Clean engines, wings that fold: Boeing dreams of futuristic jets

    Clean engines, wings that fold: Boeing dreams of futuristic jets By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter When Boeing names an airplane design after a Muppet, it must be pretty different. Two small teams at the company are re-imagining the airplane in futuristic configurations that...
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    Unbuilt B-52 projects

    Two non built versions of the B-52: -The "Colossal Guppy" projected to replace the NASA's Guppys . It is a project of the sixties that was refloated in the 90s (alone be abandoned again). Twelve motors and a " hump " of twelve meters. -A illustration of 1993 showing at a B-52 as platform...
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    • boeing cold war early 21st century late 20th century nuclear battlefield post-cold war strategic air command strategic bomber strategic reconnaissance united states united states air force
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  12. Orionblamblam

    Boeing Pelican ULTRA (Ultra Large TRansport Aircraft)

    Boeing Pelican wingship
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    • 2000s airlifter airliner airmobile boeing cargo civil aviation phantom works transport aircraft united states war on terror wig wing in ground
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  13. Orionblamblam

    US Supersonic Transport (SST) Program 1960-1971

    US SST 1960-1971
  14. Orionblamblam

    Boeing airliner and transport projects

    Boeing SuperClipper from the early '90s':
  15. Antonio

    Boeing USB Attack aircraft

    From "Warplanes of the Future". Bill Gunston. Salamander. 1990. ISBN 2-7312-0744-2 Attack Aircraft from Boeing based in the USB concept for STOL performance and agility. The same as Boeing YC-14.
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