The Boeing 7J7 was an American short- to medium-range airliner proposed by American aircraft manufacturer Boeing in the 1980s. It would have carried 150 passengers and was touted as the successor to the successful Boeing 727 . [ 1 ]

2023年1月19日 · Insiders at Boeing have claimed that the project was slowly killed in the 90s to try and pave the way for an expanded Boeing 737. Had the Boeing 7J7 been built, who knows, we may not have seen the rise of the Boeing 737 as one of the world's most popular aircraft.

2021年6月9日 · The Boeing 7J7 was designed for a 150-seater market already flying thousands of older Boeing 737s, some of which were approaching twenty years old. It also needed to replace the 727 and McDonnell Douglas’ DC-9s, focusing on domestic routes and Pan-European travel around 2,000 nautical miles.

2024年7月21日 · The bizarre-looking propfan-powered Boeing 7J7 is one aircraft that never made it into the skies. A radical new concept that sought to reduce fuel consumption drastically was slated to enter the market as a successor to the Boeing 727 …

The 7J7 was intended to be a 150-seat, six-abreast trunkliner using the General Electric GE36 UDF (unducted fan) engine. Boeing’s sales efforts ran from 1985 to 1987, just as Republic was moving into the economic position to invest in more and bigger aircraft.

2024年12月26日 · The Boeing 7J7 would be the successor to the Boeing 727 and replace the Boeing 737, changing short-haul flying forever.

2020年2月6日 · The Boeing 7J7 started as the second attempt to replace the Boeing 727 in 1983. Boeing had previously built the 757, but sales were poor following the deregulation of airlines in the United States. Boeing 757 had technologies derived from the 767, but totally different design.

2022年5月22日 · Most people have never heard of the Boeing 7J7. And yet this rather unusual design once looked set to replace both the 727 and 737! In the neat and tidy way we like to organize aircraft types, it was the 757 that replaced the 727.

2024年4月30日 · Boeing never built the 7J7, but its legacy continues to be felt to this day. Listen in to hear how technology once studied for that program could re-emerge on the company’s next new airplane ...

2019年2月25日 · The 7J7’s bears few technical attributes in common with Boeing’s coming 7K7 New Mid-Market Airplane (NMA), but its alphabetical predecessor shares a contemporary lesson for designs separated by three decades.