Boeing B-52X Twin Fortress circa 1970

[Triton]

Boeing B-52X Twin Fortress circa 1970. Real concept?

Source:
http://sobchak.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/ad-boeing-b-52x-twin-fortress-1970/

 

[Jemiba]

I suspect NO. Placing a pair of engines that far outboard on that wing probably wouldn't have been a good idea ! :-\

 

[shedofdread]

As much as I would dearly love to think that's a real concept, I rather fancy that image is 'Photoshopped'. If one looks at the curvature of the book, the image (in the area of the nose) does not exhibit the same profile - it looks flat.

Sorry...

S

 

[Stargazer]

Photoshopped, no doubt!!!

 

[pathology_doc]

Also, the centre wing and tail, being straight, would have a lousy drag rise at even moderate Mach numbers. Unless it was unbelievably thin, I can't believe Boeing would do that. (Cf. plans for a supersonic Sea Vixen, and what were they going to do with that straight twin-boom elevator?)

 

[Triton]

I suspected it was a hoax, but wasn't certain.

 

[The Artist]

I'm not saying this is that, but wasn't there a drawing or model twin B-52 as a shuttle carrier?

 

[Jemiba]

Maybe this one ? http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1292.0.html , #12

 

[Stargazer]

I suspected it was a hoax, but wasn't certain.

Take it from a photoshopper, it IS a hoax. Also, if the project had reached the stage where Boeing would have made a magazine advertisement about it, you can bet you last dollar we would have heard about it elsewhere a long time ago... Besides the "As seen on TV" logo in the corner is one detail too many. Totally unrealistic for an aviation ad.

 

[Jemiba]

Nevertheless, to my opinion, that's a much more believable way to produce such a fake, then simply
show the PSed photo somewhere. "Look, it wasn't me, I just found it !". And so actually a more dangerous
one, which could produce "a new reality" more easily....

 

[Michel Van]

that not photoshop, its a photomontage from 1970s i think this is a april fool joke by Boeing...