Moveable wings ?
No it wasn't. Not the model shown on the old magazines I have.

It was a nice, beautiful sexy delta not unlike it's competitors.

Actually, look at what I just found on the web:
http://www.boeing.com/history/boeing/sst.html



"F.L. Whiteley" wrote in message
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Boeing's design was a moveable wing, akin to the F-111 and F-14. This
would
have reduced the need to move fuel, at least as much, as it would shift
along with the wing. One thing about the old Boeing, they never bid or
offered an airframe that they didn't have the technology to build in hand.

Frank Whiteley

"Arnie" wrote in message
. com...
Denis, I hope you're just trying to make fun of the limited views some
people express here.

If you refer to the need to transfer fuel to stay in balance, the
Concorde
was neither the first, nor the last airplane with that need. Fuel
management
is an issue with most large airplanes, weather of not they are Delta
wings
or even Supersonic.

Boing was working on a similar design (although a few years behind) at
the
time the Concorde was launched, and it too would have the exact same
challenge to stay in balance, as a large delta-wing supersonic aircraft.

Or is it just that most people could never overcome the fact that the
europeans beat everyone else into the SST commercial world, and 40 years
later nobody could repeat that ?




Denis" wrote in message
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Paul Repacholi wrote:

Concorde, when it was acelaring through transonic speeds had to do a
large fuel xfer to the aft tanks to conpensate for the strong nose
down trim shift.

It was rumoured to be certified

Surprisingly... but I'm confident that, had the soaring price of oil
in
the 70's not succeeded in killing commercially this beautiful bird,
the
FAA would not have been so kind to let it fly over the USA with such a
dangerous feature ;-)

--
Denis

R. Parce que ça rompt le cours normal de la conversation !!!
Q. Pourquoi ne faut-il pas répondre au-dessus de la question ?