Britain and France had a bit of a monopoly on supersonic passenger planes with the Concorde airliner, a plane that was ahead of its time. Boeing wanted to create its own supersonic transport (SST) for ...

When I say American Concorde, you think of the Boeing 2707. But another design almost won the government contract, the Lockheed L-2000. It was cheaper and easier to build and had it been put into ...