Boeing looked at a supersonic bomber designed to outrun enemy aircraft for the wings, the XB-70, wanting to create variable sweeping wings. This would allow the 2707 to keep its wings out straight ...

Even bigger news was Convair’s new B58 Hustler bomber, a plane eight years in development as the nation’s first truly supersonic long-range bomber. ... Boeing’s 600-m.p.h. B-47 medium bomber.

The venerable Boeing B-52 came out of WWII, with plans for the huge plane starting in 1945. ... and so the military and its defense contracts began work on a supersonic bomber to outpace them. ...

(Chad Slattery) This Configuration 724-16 model was part of Boeing’s 1957 submission for the Mach 3, long-range, supersonic WS-110A bomber competition.

The plane was born out of a competition between Boeing and North American Aviation, then a major aerospace manufacturer that was eventually chosen by the Air Force, in 1957, to develop a bomber ...

The bomber crashed at around 5:50 p.m. local time "while attempting to ... multi-mission and supersonic conventional bomber, according ... Space and Security — a division of the Boeing ...

After recalling a decommissioned Boeing B-1B bomber to service, US Air Force technicians restored the supersonic aircraft to flying condition at the Davis-Monthan AFB “boneyard” before a ...

Boeing looked at a supersonic bomber designed to outrun enemy aircraft for the wings, the XB-70, wanting to create variable sweeping wings.

The plane was born out of a competition between Boeing and North American Aviation, then a major aerospace manufacturer that was eventually chosen by the Air Force, in 1957, to develop a bomber ...