Tag: SST

SST Concepts

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FIGURE 1 Lockheed’s first supersonic transport (SST) design of 1956-58.

FIGURE 2 SST concept of the late-1950s.

Code One, Volume 24, Number 2, 2009

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Lockheed Conceptual Design

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Lockheed Horizons, Number 14, 1983

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Origin of The SST

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  1. Lockheed’s L-2000 SST design, loser in the competition with Boeing for US/SST contract, was result of decade of tunnel testing, incorporating best features of fixed wing double-delta concept proved out in SR-71. Lockheed’s philosophy was simplicity in design for better safety and economy.
  2. How to build an SST! Brilliant Lockheed designer Clarence L. (Kelly) Johnson, who created such successful planes as the U-2, SR-71, F-104 and the Constellation, amused fellow aircrafters with satirical drawing portraying design problems encountered with the SST.

The SST: Here it comes, ready or not
by Don Dwiggins
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968

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