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Lent by Langley Research Center
When the Anglo-French Concorde (1969-75) was first being developed in
the late 1950s, American manufacturers such as Lockheed and Boeing were
competing to design the USA's entry into the supersonic transport
market. This steel model represents one of the early studies for this
craft. Boeing won government support for their proposal in 1966, but
funding was withdrawn in 1971 and the project cancelled. Nevertheless,
ideas for an American supersonic transport were revived in the 1980s
with NASA's studies for a High Speed Civil Transport, the HSCT, and in
the 1990s with the High Speed Research, the HSR, and the National Aero
Space Plane, the NASP, programs.
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