Flight Delay

It was supposed to be the Concorde killer – one of three models built by Boeing as part of a $1 billion government-funded effort to create a 220-passenger supersonic transport. But in 1971, the SST program was summarily canceled. Last year, helicopter pioneer Stan Hiller located this mock-up languishing in Florida. He brought the rusty […]

It was supposed to be the Concorde killer - one of three models built by Boeing as part of a $1 billion government-funded effort to create a 220-passenger supersonic transport. But in 1971, the SST program was summarily canceled. Last year, helicopter pioneer Stan Hiller located this mock-up languishing in Florida. He brought the rusty fuselage to the Hiller Aviation Museum in Silicon Valley, where the SST is being restored to its needle-nosed glory. "We got ahead of ourselves 30 years ago, but someday, planes like this will be viable," Hiller insists. "This aircraft isn't a relic of the past - it's a vision of the future."

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