Early impression for Boeing WS-110A proposal

Looking for an old AWST article to scan, I found another photocopy I took some times ago in which are depicted, w/o additional information, a couple of models of what seem a single Boeing-Wichita design. One is a tunnel model, the other one is a 1:10 model used for live drop tests. Could be: 1) a light-bomber/fighter-bomber/strike aircraft, either land or ship-based; b) a VTOL tactical aircraft (I seem to divine vertical jet inlets in the central fuselage. Anyone has some more clues ? Date is circa 1960 (could be little earlier).
Thanx in advance
 

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Was Boeing by chance involved with BAC on the TSR.2? The shape of the model looks quite a bit like a TSR.2
 
Hesham, I have the exact same pictures under "Model 721". Which is correct?
 
Valkyrie by Jenkins & Landis:

Page 22; with that pictures.

During March 1956 Boeing began investigating the Model 724-13, and this is the model that is usually -incorrectly- shown as the Boeing entry in the competition
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The floating tips were numbered Model 724-1001
 
My dear Skybolt,

your picture looks like the picture from Flightglobal for
Boeing WS-110A bomber in wind tunnel.

http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1958/1958%20-%200042.pdf
 

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As my dear Stargazer told us;

Model 713 --- WS-110A program (probably plain WS-110 in fact)
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May be this aircraft in the beginning of that topic,was the Boeing Model 713.
 

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hesham said:
Hi,

also early Boeing design,the Model-724.

http://www.xb70.free.fr/mono/Texte/avant-projet/avant-projet.htm
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That link doesn't work for me, but this one does:

http://www.xb70.free.fr/mono/Texte/avant-projet/avant-projet.php

Question...are those jettisonable, disposable fuel tanks that take some of the wing with them, recoverable winged fuel tanks (if so, recoverable where and by whom) or...?
 
Hi,

I think it was Boeing Model-721,which was submitted to WS-302A to compete
the Martin XB-68,Model-721 was derivative of Model-712,and for Model-712
configuration,it was a slim high-wing design with tapered swept wing and
all-moving tail,used two Wright J67-W-1 engines mounted in nacelles that
were placed adjacent to the rear fuselage and the middle fuselage was area
ruled to accommodate this feature as in Mr. Tony Butler's book; American
Secret Projects: Fighters and Interceptors.
 

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When the Boeing 724 model was unveiled at a contractor presentation, SAC commander General Curtis LeMay famously said something like, "This isn't an airplane, it's a three-ship formation!" Does anybody know the exact wording of the quote and possibly a source? I remember reading this in a book, but cannot remember which one ... Thank you.

Attached is the model in question, now in storage at the Boeing archive in Seattle.
 

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circle-5 said:
When the Boeing 724 model was unveiled at a contractor presentation, SAC commander General Curtis LeMay famously said something like, "This isn't an airplane, it's a three-ship formation!" Does anybody know the exact wording of the quote and possibly a source? I remember reading this in a book, but cannot remember which one ... Thank you.

Attached is the model in question, now in storage at the Boeing archive in Seattle.
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Pretty sure its in Landis and Jenkins' Valkyrie book, but I'm away from my books at present.
 
In my Valkyrie books the exact Gen. Lemay quote is: "Back to the drawing boards. This isn't an airplane, it's a three-ship formation." -SP
 
Cool plane (planes?). It would be interesting to rummage through the 1950s for the then-impractical ideas that could be made to work today.
 
Steve Pace said:
In my Valkyrie books the exact Gen. Lemay quote is: "Back to the drawing boards. This isn't an airplane, it's a three-ship formation." -SP
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Thank you Steve, for the answer to my question!
 

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Was it meant to take-off in this configuration?
 
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