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The Kennedy administration funded a Mach-3 airliner that was supposed to be an answer to the European Concorde project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L
by iwwr 12y ago
The Kennedy administration funded a Mach-3 airliner that was supposed to be an answer to the European Concorde project.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-2000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_2707 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_2707
The Soviets also had a design that supposedly incorporated stolen Concorde blueprints.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144
- lotharbot 12y ago> "The Soviets also had a design that supposedly incorporated stolen Concorde blueprints" From what I understand, the Tu-144 didn't really incorporate anything of significance from Concorde -- the plans they had access to were more like sketches than fully fleshed out blueprints, and they only had usable details on a few minor components. The Tu-144 shares mostly superficial similarities with Concorde, with only a couple of similarities that might possibly have been the result of espionage.