The Boeing 2707 was meant to be America’s answer to Concorde — a supersonic airliner that promised to revolutionize passenger flight. In this video, we trace its ambitious rise, the engineering ...

After World War II, as early supersonic military aircraft were pushing the boundaries of flight, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that commercial aircraft would eventually fly faster than sound as ...

This collection consists of manuals, reports and drawings concerning the development of Boeing's supersonic transport. The collection also contains materials discussing rival designs to the Boeing SST ...

When Boeing Co. beat out Lockheed Aircraft Corp. for the prize of building the U.S. supersonic jet transport, it was on the basis of a venturesome swing-wing concept that many aeronautical designers ...