Good Morning

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 09/04/2020 at 09:05 • Filed to: good morning oppo, wingspan, Planelopnik

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Happy Friday, Oppo. How fast can we get into the weekend?

We’ll close out Lockheed Week with this mockup of the L-2000, with a station wagon for scale. The L-2000 was Lockheed’s offering for the government-funded program to develop a US-made SST to compete with the Concorde. Since everything in the US is supposed to be bigger and better than the rest of the world, the L-2000 was proposed to carry 25o passengers (Concorde held about 120), fly as fast as Mach 3.0 (Concorde maxed out at Mach 2) and have a 4,000-mile range (a bit less than Concorde). The L-2000 lost out to Boeing’s offering, the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , but that program never advanced beyond a full mockup before it too was canceled. Had it flown, the L-2000 would have been powered by the Pratt & Whitney J58, the same engine used on the A-12 and SR-71.

facw > ttyymmnn 09/04/2020 at 09:24

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The SST program... In the end, it was only good for crossword puzzle authors.

ttyymmnn > facw 09/04/2020 at 09:27

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Mauna ____

I hate that one. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 09/04/2020 at 09:29

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I’m thankful Friday is here, but I   ha ve a ton of work to do today and no motivation to get it done.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 09/04/2020 at 09:33

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I’m leaving in 30 minutes for my first ASO gig since March 7. Six months. And I’ve played just one gig in between. Looking forward to it. 

ranwhenparked > ttyymmnn 09/04/2020 at 09:45

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And if Boeing had won, we’d have a 2007X right now, the same basic plane from 1971, on its 3rd re-engining, now with a 1% fuel economy improvement and a stretched fuselage with 20% more passenger capacity.

Roadkilled > ttyymmnn 09/04/2020 at 09:51

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It could be worse. At least you don’t run into “Mauna _ _ _ _”. I guess crossword editors default to “SST” to fill in spaces when “Former map abbreviation” doesn’t work with “SSR”.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 09/04/2020 at 09:58

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Bravo! I’m already clapping!

PartyPooper2012 > ttyymmnn 09/04/2020 at 10:00

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All I see is a plane being 3D printed and support in the front part i s heavy duty and in the back it’s pretty weak.

probably won’t print well. you can already see nose drooping. 

ttyymmnn > Roadkilled 09/04/2020 at 10:23

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I usually just put in the A and keep going. 

user314 > ttyymmnn 09/04/2020 at 10:28

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What might have been...

Braniff L-2000 next to a Braniff Concorde

ttyymmnn > user314 09/04/2020 at 10:30

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A Blackbird with 250 seats. 

ttyymmnn > user314 09/04/2020 at 10:31

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That gives a pretty good idea of the size of the Concorde. It wasn’t that big. 

user314 > ttyymmnn 09/04/2020 at 10:42

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North American XB-70 as an SST:

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Then there was the NAC-60, their entry for the SST competition:

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > ttyymmnn 09/04/2020 at 11:08

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Boop the droop snoot

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > ttyymmnn 09/04/2020 at 11:14

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It’s not too late for them to make the Sonic Cruiser. We can still make this happen.

ttyymmnn > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/04/2020 at 11:29

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https://taskandpurpose.com/military-tech/air-force-one-hermeus