Why did Boeing’s 2707, a jet designed to be bigger and faster than Concorde, never take off? What went wrong? Could we have been flying at supersonic speeds today if this project had succeeded?

Boeing's 2707 was only slightly more modest – Mach 2.7, 270 passengers, but a range of 6700 kilometres. In the head-to-head design competition the Boeing carried the day.

Boeing's 2707 concept was a supersonic transport (SST) that would have flown faster than the popular Concord while carrying more passengers, making it quite a competitor to the European SST ...

Can Boeing recover the public's trust? 07:50 Every two seconds a Boeing 737 takes off or lands somewhere around the world. For over a century Boeing airplanes have embodied American engineering ...