Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
'Planes That Never Flew', Season 1, Episode 4: In 1963, President John F. Kennedy greenlit a secret race for the ultimate aerospace prize: a 2,000 MPH supersonic airliner. This was the Boeing 2707, a 300-ton "Metal Monster" designed to fly higher and faster than any rival on Earth. Engineered with radical swing-wing technology and a heat-resistant titanium hull, it was America's classified answer to the European Concorde. However, between technical weight crises and a political war over the "Sonic Boom," the project was abruptly killed. Discover the lost history of the world's first true Super-Plane, the secret engineering behind its Mach 3 capabilities, and the real reason the project was scrapped just before takeoff.
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'Planes That Never Flew', Season 1, Episode 4: In 1963, President John F. Kennedy greenlit a secret race for the ultimate aerospace prize: a 2,000 MPH supersonic airliner. This was the Boeing 2707, a 300-ton "Metal Monster" designed to fly higher and faster than any rival on Earth. Engineered with radical swing-wing technology and a heat-resistant titanium hull, it was America's classified answer to the European Concorde. However, between technical weight crises and a political war over the "Sonic Boom," the project was abruptly killed. Discover the lost history of the world's first true Super-Plane, the secret engineering behind its Mach 3 capabilities, and the real reason the project was scrapped just before takeoff.
Licensed to Little Dot Studios.
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