Boeing 2707 SST
While commercial jet transports began to enter service after World War 2, aiming for a supersonic airliner was a remote dream, until Convair developed their Mach 2 B-58 bomber. The dreams revived. Britain set up the Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee in 1956, and in 1959. When it became clear, from 1962, that the Anglo-French SST, to be named Concorde, would actually go ahead, other nations began to work on designs of their own. In the USSR, the Tupolev design bureau began working on their Tu-144. America could hardly stand by, and in 1962 NASA began the SCAT (Supersonic Commercial Air Transport) program. During the 1950s, commercial air transport had made a radical shift from piston-powered airliners to the new jetliners like the Boeing 707. Going to an SST was simply the next logical step. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) set up a competition for an SST that would be faster, bigger, and better than the Concorde. In 1964, SST proposals from North American, Lockheed, and Boeing were selected as finalists. The winner was Boeings “Model 2707”, the name obviously implying a Mach 2 aircraft that would be as significant as the Boeing 707. Boeing was awarded
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