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.

In fact, Boeing made headlines last year when they secured a patent for a retractable cannon design intended for the Bone, effectively converting the heavy bomber into a supersonic gunship akin to ...

Boeing's B-1 is a long-range, multi-mission, supersonic conventional bomber. It is equipped to carry eight air-launched cruise missiles or 24 SRAMs and up to 24 nuclear bombs or 84 500-pound ...

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. ...

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 ...

Clipper seaplanes like the Boeing 314 were the 747s of the era, ... The Myasishchev M-70 would not just have been an amphibious nuclear-armed bomber: it would have been supersonic as well.

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