#lockheed l-2000

[electronicsquid]

Mock up of the Lockheed L-2000 SST

(Bill Ray. n.d.)

[infran0va]

I need people to know that Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, the site of Alligator Alcatraz, was originally to be called the "Everglades Jetport." At the time construction started, the Concord was flying and Boeing and Lockheed both had supersonic airlines under development (The 2707 and L-2000 respectively). Everyone assumed the future of air travel would be supersonic, so this intercontinental hub would have been the *biggest airport in the world* at the time. Thing is, building an airport five times the size of JFK in the middle of the Everglades is as terrible of an idea as supersonic transport was in the first place, so the project was cancelled after one runway was built. It almost feels like a kind of fucked up symmetry that such an edifice of optimistic hubris would be converted into a machine for inhuman cruelty.

[lonestarflight]

Cutaway of the Lockheed L-2000 and side views of it in Pan-Am and TWA Livery. This was Lockheed's entry into the National Supersonic Transport Program.

Date: 1966

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[windtunnelmodels]

Lockheed L-2000

[garyschroeder]

1966 ... Lockheed design for SST by x-ray delta one on Flickr.