Unbuilt, experimental and unusual Boeing 747s

[sgeorges4]

pan am concept model https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/100-boeing-747-concept-model-pan-am-1872226654

 

[Sirpad]

Here's a drawing of the MC747:

 

[Sirpad]

Another concept for cruise missile "bomb truck", intended for carrying and launching ALCM missiles by means of standard rotating launchers.

 

[sgeorges4]

boeing 747 400ER detail https://studylib.net/doc/8420168/747-400--400er-freighters
and boeing 747 400BCF (wich seem to not have done so well from this article) https://www.yesterdaysairlines.com/airline-history-blog/new-life-to-old-jumbos-747-400bcf-and-bdsfs

 

[carsinamerica]

747 8F freighter concept (some antenna seem to have their location change)


http://www.aviationexplorer.com/747_facts.htm

I wonder when in the process Boeing decided to change the size and position of the horizontal stabilizer on the 747-8. I've never seen anything about a design change, but the ACAPS documentation shows a different span and a different overhang beyond the fuselage.

 

[sgeorges4]

 

[isayyo2]

747 Advanced Tanker/Oversized Cargo Aircraft "ATOCA"

A growth version of the -200F competing in the ATCA program against the KC-10; the flight deck would have been raised 48 inches and be provided with a new large cargo door and improved tanker boom. It seems like it was proposed to supplement the C-5 or potentially replace it if the repair program failed, truly a shame it was not adopted.

https://books.google.com/books?id=G...1LI2&dq=747 atoca&pg=PA321#v=onepage&q&f=true

 

[Jason Dykstra (Wyvern)]

Hopefully this website might help:


http://www.boeing-747.com/boeing_747_family/747-400xqlr-quiet-long-range.html

It also includes other unbuilt variants and projects like the Cruise Missile Carrier Aircraft (CMCA), the Airborne Aircraft Carrier (AAC), the KC-33, etc.

 

[TomcatViP]

https://www.wearethemighty.com/arti...ic&utm_content=gear-tech&utm_term=ian d'costa
Doc available below

 

[alanqua]

https://www.wearethemighty.com/arti...ic&utm_content=gear-tech&utm_term=ian d'costa
Doc available below

Hello,
I post here some of my illustrations that I published in Le Fana de l'Aviation a few years ago on the same topic. Sorry, I do not remember the article reference (it was in French). We chose to depict only 1 potential fighter configuration among many.
Regards
Alain

 

[dfthu]

747X family poster from the University of Minnesota Aerospace engineering building

 

[sgeorges4]

747 8F concept founded on google search

Boeing 747 400 test

https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/abl/attachment/abl2/

 

[Deleted member 18851]

https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/abl/attachment/abl2/[/URL]

This photo is an airborne laser wind tunnel test model.

 

[sgeorges4]

wasn't this guy in the dogfight future episode (wich kinda looked like an ad for the F22 raptor to me)?
Founded this:

https://www.flightglobal.com/emirat...-original-longer-range-proposal/70220.article

 

[airman]

Boeing 747-8 is last version of 747 .

 

[sgeorges4]

http://www.aviationexplorer.com/747_facts.htm747 8 concept

 

[sgeorges4]

" Boeing forecasts the need for about 900 airplanes -- passengers and freighters -- in the 400-plus-seat segment over the next 20 years. Boeing also forecasts that large widebody freighters (65 metric tons and above in capacity) will comprise 34 percent of the freighter market by 2024. "
https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2005-11-14-Boeing-Launches-New-747-8-Family
so many what if possibility here,was the 747 800X verry different from the 8i? (planning to use the zvezda 747 for this one)

 

[sgeorges4]

any information on the boeing 747 advanced?

 

[Grey Havoc]

ATK and British Aerospace studied the use of the 747 and other large commerical jets to serve as ASAT system via a bank of vertical missile tubes, much like a boomer.

 

[hesham]

From, The Airbus A380

 

[hesham]

From AW 1966.

 

[hesham]

From, Jumbo Jets.

 

[Excalibur66]

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.

Here is a Model and drawing to Super-AWACS project

Here photos from AWST Nov 1990.

 

[Jason Dykstra (Wyvern)]

Would this variant have been used to warn of incoming missile threats as well? The radar seems a tad bit large for normal "day-to-day" AWACS.

 

[1635yankee]

NASA had two unusual variants: the Shuttle carriers and SOFIA.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/SOFIA/overview/index.html

 

[robunos]

Why Did Boeing Build The Boeing 747SP? A Route To Iran Holds The Answer…

https://simpleflying.com/boeing-747-sp-why/
cheers,
Robin.

 

[Grey Havoc]

One thing that the article doesn't mention is that a Japan Air Lines requirement also played a major role in the creation of the SP variant (in some sources the Japanese request actually preceded the Pam Am/Iran Air request).

 

[Boombabb2]

Didn't see what is my favorite 747 variant, the AAC.

 

[Grey Havoc]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ouPC7wlf5A

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=45943

 

[TomcatViP]

From the link above :

Perhaps more dangerous would be the Soviet reaction. They’d be in a constant state of freaking out every time one of these took to the sky, and they probably would have difficulty telling an MC-747 from an E-4 or a civilian 747. And, of course, they’d have to have their own. the AN-124 would be the logical choice for an ICBM carrier, and chances are good they’d do as good of a job with it as they did with Chernobyl, the Kursk or the Polyus.

So true.

 

[sgeorges4]

747 8F with a normal door at the rear that wasn't in the production aircraft

https://volavi.co/aviacion/noticias/comienza-produccion-del-747-8f-carguero

 

[Grey Havoc]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KybOWKxkObw

 

[hesham]

I don't remember what was exactly the report which displayed
this drawing in it ?,but maybe in a Concorde file ?.

https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=BOEING+747+CONCORDE

 

[sgeorges4]

wait, I thought the 747 400X and the 747 400 were the same aircraft, but they aren't? http://www.airwar.ru/enc_e/aliner/b747-400x.html I've seen a diagram on this thread showing a "boing 747 400/400X" and I thought the 400X just became the 400 once it got out.

 

[sgeorges4]

founded this flightglobal article answering my question: https://www.flightglobal.com/boeing-defines-747-400x/21312.article

 

[Grey Havoc]

https://fireaviation.com/2021/04/23/the-747-supertanker-is-ceasing-operations/

 

[hesham]

From, Boeing 747 A History,

please look to picture 4 ,what was this ?,maybe I can't
see well !.

 

[Foo Fighter]

I believe the aircraft was modified for a film role but cannot recall which. Sorry.

 

[TomcatViP]

Correct:
James Bond's Skyfleet S570:

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Skyfleet_S570