BAC Mystic SST

[McColm]

The kit is the Revell 1/200 Boeing 2707 with the engines from a 1/144 Revell BAC Concorde and the decals are a mixture of spares. The fuselage consists of four parts from the Supersonic version. The main landing gear came from the Subsonic model.
The Pan American Supersonic Clipper would have been the first swing-wing airliner carrying 300 passengers at Mach 2.7 cruising at 64,000ft. However Boeing ran into problems during the construction and had to ask the British for help as they had previously built the BAC Concorde.
BAC had it's order books full and subcontractored the work to SJMcColm Engineering Ltd who had developed a process of using aluminum but not welding  instead using glue then baked.
The North American aircraft company provided a fly-by-wire control system,  Lockheed- carbon fibre and titanium expertise.  Reducing the total weight of 675,000 pounds by a quarter, further development would see this reduced to a third.
A closed circuit television monitors in the cockpit allowing the pilot to observe the landing, taxing and rear of the aircraft The British not only chose the Rolls-Royce engines but the two stage cranked nose.
As noise restrictions had been placed on the Concorde as a supersonic airliner,  BAC marketed the Mystic as a supersonic freighter, 200 bed sleeper and a bomber aircraft.
The USAF had cancelled the B-70 but were looking for a long-range supersonic bomber, the Royal Air Force had also shown an interest with Australia and India, talks with the USSR would also lead to export orders being placed.
Boeing would stick to the original design of the three stage cranked nose and have four General Electric GE4 Turbojets producing 60,000 of thrust.
To save confusion they would call the model the Boeing Mystery. The flagship would have six turbojet engines and twin tail fins, aiming at the business class with cocktail bars, individual seat monitors, entertainment systems and reclining seats.
The photo shows the Boeing B-7 Mystery in it's white primer wings extended,  below is the BAC Mystic also in white primer with it's wings tucked away and the twin finned Pan American Supersonic Clipper prior to being cleaned.




The launch customer of the BAC Mystic freighter was British Airways shown here.

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The twin-fin is undergoing restoration. I just need to find a suitable colour scheme for the B-7.