Please ignore my pervious post. After reading your post I went out and
did some more research, and you are indeed correct. I had thought the
747 was a 'clean room' design, but apparently I was wrong. I'd love to
see the original version Boeing tossed up against the Lockheed entry.
I know Boeing had a ton of teething problems with the B747 (notably
the P&W engines) and had initially envisioned a plane with full-double
decks, but abandoned it. Related to the original post, I can't imagine
the entry for the HLS competition was anything resembing the final
production version of the 747-100, but I can't seem to find any
pictures or engineering drawings, so it might be a 'spitting image'
. If you know of any, I'd love to see them. You learn something new
every day


Thanks,

Cap



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You might as well say that the 747 was originally designed as a bomber.

Uh, no, one couldn't. It was designed 'from scratch' as a passenger
carrying airliner. ...

While I generally agree with the rest of your post, you're incorrect here.
The B747 was originally conceived to be a cargo plane for the military, in
competition to the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, which eventually won the contract.
Only after losing did Boeing decide to convert its design to pax use.

Mike