The Boeing 2707 was a supersonic aircraft that promised to revolutionize air travel with speed and luxury, but it ultimately ...

But on June 6, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that’s set to rip up that outdated rulebook, green ...

President Donald Trump signed a landmark Executive Order, dismantling regulatory barriers that had long grounded high-speed ...

Commercial supersonic flight over the United States was banned in 1973 in response to complaints regarding the boom produced by aircraft flying faster than Mach 1. These sonic booms have been known to ...

It would have been the home of America's answer to ConcordeCredit: Getty This included the Boeing 2707, America's answer to Concorde which would have flown up to 1,800 miles an hour. This would ...

Supersonic travel has always been fraught with false starts and challenges. In the 1960s, the Boeing 2707 promised a supersonic future, only to be derailed by cost overruns and regulatory hurdles.

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Driving this radical rethink was the airline's supersonic ambition: in the early 1970s, Qantas was still weighing up the purchase of four Concordes, after the ambitious Boeing 2707 SST (for which ...

In 1970, the Australian airline laid down $600,000 for six Boeing 2707 jets, the United States’ idea of a competitor to Concorde. It all came to nought. Concorde built only 20 planes ...

Initially intended as a technological marvel to rival Concorde, the Anglo-French supersonic aircraft, development of Boeing 2707 faced insurmountable technical and economic challenges and was ...

Pan-Am and TWA placed at least a dozen orders for the Boeing 2707 while it was still in development. Miami-Dade County even had plans for a bespoke supersonic airport in the middle of the Everglades.

Megaprojects Boeing 2707: The Dream That Died Before Takeoff Posted: March 3, 2025 | Last updated: March 3, 2025 Why did Boeing’s 2707, a jet designed to be bigger and faster than Concorde ...