Re: Numbers for Bombers & Fighters (v. OT, but Somebody Here Probably Knows)

"Peter Stickney" <p-stickney@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Pat Flannery wrote:



Brian Thorn wrote:
The Air Force brass
sure does seem to have been neutered in the last 20 years... "we don't
care what our regulations say, Boeing, Lockheed and Northrop, we'll
designate your planes whatever you want.


Here's a goody: At the moment we are up to the Boeing 787...then comes
the 797...and then? :-\

1701, probably - the precedent's already in place.
Boeing's SST project from teh late '60s early '70s was the 2707.

Why that number?



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