EVERY Forgotten Boeing Aircraft

Описание: Not every Boeing aircraft became a legend.
Many were experiments, stopgaps, commercial misreads, or political casualties — and then quietly erased from the company’s public story.

This video explores forgotten Boeing aircraft that shaped the company’s trajectory without ever achieving lasting fame or widespread operational success. From the Model 1 B & W, which proved Boeing could build airplanes at all, to late-stage projects like the X-32 and Phantom Ray, these designs reveal how survival, not brilliance, often drives aerospace history.

Early fighters and prototypes such as the Model 8, Model 15, and Model 299 show how close Boeing came to exiting military aviation entirely before the B-17 lineage saved the company. Commercial aircraft like the Model 40, Model 80, and Monomail demonstrate how Boeing learned — sometimes painfully — that timing mattered as much as innovation.

Large experimental bombers including the XB-15 and B-29D existed to generate data, not victories, while the Dash 80 quietly became the most influential prototype in Boeing history despite never entering service itself. Programs like the 2707 supersonic transport and YC-14 collapsed not because they failed technically, but because politics, cost, and shifting doctrine made them inconvenient.

Even modern aircraft — from the 747-8 Intercontinental to the 787-10 — show how market timing and corporate decisions can bury capable designs under changing industry realities.

This is not a failure story.
It is a structural autopsy of Boeing’s forgotten aircraft, and how experimentation, miscalculation, and cancellation shaped Boeing just as much as its most famous successes.

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