List of trijet aircraft explained

The following is a list of trijet aircraft.

Proposed or suspended trijet developments

• Boeing 747-300 Trijet – downsized 747 to compete with the DC-10 and L-1011, changed to four engines
• Blended Wing Body Trijet – proposed design based on the Boeing X-48
• McDonnell Douglas MD-XX – stretched derivative of the DC-10, project shelved
• North American NR-349 – proposed interceptor derivative of the A-5 Vigilante, cancelled
• Airbus twin-tail trijet,^[1] – status unknown
• Dassault Supersonic Business Jet – suspended
• Aerion AS2^[2] - Suspended
• Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21
• Boom Technology Overture - 3-engine design proposed, but changed to 4-engine
• Boeing 777 – Originally envisioned as a trijet 767 in the 1970s to compete with the DC-10 and the L-1011; later became a new twin-engine design.

See also

• Trijet

References

1. https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/airbus-files-patent-for-new-trijet-design-223089/ Airbus files patent for new trijet design
2. Web site: Aerion Supersonic - AS2 - Specifications . 2014-07-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140728081821/http://www.aerionsupersonic.com/as2-specifications.aspx . 2014-07-28 .

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