B747 Trijet

[AeroplaneDriver]

I honestly had no idea...

https://aviationforaviators.com/2021/05/31/the-boeing-747-type-that-failed/

[ericr]

  

[PR19_Kit]

The main pic's fairly obviously a Tri-Star #2 engine duct grafted onto a pic of a normal 747, but the model pic lower down looks believable.

Why does the writer go bananas about Boeing designing a 'new wing'? The did that with the SP anyway, with a different flap and trailing edge design, and every aircraft needs a new wing design too.

[zenrat]

That is badly written.  Almost as if it is a translation.

[Wardukw]

The thing thats getting me ia why havent i ever seen this plane before.
I was addicted to planes as a kid and even now i still have a interest in weird aircraft but ive never heard or seen this before and with the hundreds of books and thousands of pictures i used to have this has never shown its face before..its like this is fake because the concept is stupid.
Why would Boeing build a small verison of a large plane when they already had the 737 for that job and as mentioned before why does the writer go mental about the new wing..this whole thing makes no sense to me.

[jcf]

Jaysus what an eejit. 

It didn't bloody "fail", it's simply a project that wasn't pursued. 

[Captain Canada]

Some of us kids just look at the pictures :-) It'd pretty neat but no where near as cool as the 4 engined bird.