Well, that, and they are now in Sacramento, awaiting their final move to Las Vegas in a couple of years.
Not exactly. Boeing wasn’t “trying to get the Concorde contract”; they were developing their own SST jetliner (the 2707), with funding from the U.S. Government, to compete against the Concorde.
The 2707 project was cancelled in 1971, before completion of any prototypes, in part due to the government cutting off funding, and in part due to environmental concerns, which ultimately led to the banning of commercial supersonic flight over U.S. land in 1973.
But, yes, the SuperSonics got their name in 1967, when the Seattle area was very excited about the 2707 project.
Maybe do something with Mt. Tahoma (Rainier).
You are correct. I may have shorthanded it but my understanding was they cancelled it when Concorde was contracted by British Airways and Air France. That’s what I meant.
I think that that’s incorrect.
Details on the Boeing SST, which are off-topic, so I'm collapsing them.
A joint UK-French effort to build a commercial SST was first announced in 1962 (after several years of separate development efforts by British and French firms). When Concorde was formally announced in 1963, orders were quickly received from BOAC (one of British Airways’ predecessor airlines) and Air France, as well as by a number of U.S. (Pan Am, TWA, Continental, and American) and foreign airlines.
In response to the initial announcement of Concorde, on June 5, 1963, the U.S. Government quickly launched the National Supersonic Transport Program, and encouraged U.S. aerospace manufacturers to develop plans for a commercial SST to compete with Concorde. Note that this initiative was launched two days after BOAC and Air France had been among the first airlines to order Concordes. In 1967 Boeing won the contract, and the funding, to make the plane.
Boeing had 115 orders from 25 airlines for B2707s when they shut the program down in 1971; at that time, Concorde had 74 orders from 16 airlines. Whatever killed that plane, it wasn’t losing orders to British Airways and Air France that did it.
Cool to know. Thanx
@HeyHomie , any progress on more baseball teams? I’ve enjoyed your work so far; I’d like to see more.
I abandoned the project since the thread wasn’t getting any traction, and I deleted all of the pics. But give me a minute and I’ll show you a couple I kept.
The Chicago Cubs are now Lakeview FC
The AI generated the lion, which I found appropriate because lions also have Cubs. I rather like this (which is why I kept it).
Well, I’ll give the thread some traction.
“FC Santa Ana” is perfect for the Angels.
“FC San Francisco Bay” confuses me. The tree looks sort of like the tree on the flag of Lebanon. Maybe go for something involving the Golden Gate Bridge?
“Hill Terrace SC”—get rid of the dice, which as you say, are not showing the correct numbers anyway. It’s Texas; what about an oil derrick? Or longhorn cows?
I still like “AFC St. George’s.” That’s one of the best, IMHO.
This is one I made for my hometown of Springfield, Illinois. If the neighborhood I grew up in had an athletic club (it doesn’t) which evolved into a professional soccer team, here’s its shield.
The colors are those of Springfield’s Prospects League team, the Lucky Horseshoes. ETA: the Lucky Horseshoes are a minor league baseball team.
I like it. Nice and simple, and while I did a double-take at the lion, I then remembered that lions also have cubs. Very nice!
Regarding “Harvard Park FC,” it may be known to you as a local, but I’m not a local, and my first thought was of Harvard University. Is there another local landmark you might reference?
Waitaminute. It’s Springfield, Illinois? In that case, you’ve got to do something with Abraham Lincoln. A profile silhouette of him in his top hat, looking left. Colours are red, white, and blue. Name is just “Springfield FC.” Your thoughts?
Well since many/most Euro and South American soccer teams originated in neighborhood clubs, and indeed retain those names (Chelsea, Aston Villa, etc), I went with a Springfield neighborhood. Specifically the Springfield neighborhood that I grew up in.
And since these are intended to date from 1880, and Lincoln died in 1865, I figured it was before Springfield developed its habit of referencing Lincoln in every fucking way imaginable, I didn’t include him.
I may yet revisit this. Harvard Park is named for, well, Harvard. Other streets in the neighborhood are Yale, Cornell, Bryn Mawr, etc. It all sounds so very bougie but trust me, the neighborhood is this close to being a ghetto. Any I may include some reference to Harvard in a future rendering. Maybe a bust of Socrates or something.
Heh. We’ve got a neighbourhood in my city (Lethbridge, Alberta) where all the streets are named for famous universities. Nobody lives on “University of Toronto Drive,” but single names are fair game: Columbia, McMaster, Dalhousie, and so on. Not a bad neighbourhood, but there are better ones.
I’m going to give Springfield a try, just for fun. It’s been too long since I did any design work; let’s see if I still can.
Ok here’s another stab at a Springfield team.
I couldn’t get the AI to get the hat right, as I don’t think Lincoln’s stovepipe hat’s brim was flared. But I could be wrong. The colors are those of Harvard University, a reference to my desperate quest to include my old neighborhood in this shield.
ETA: and the AI fucked up the word Springfield.
Here’s my effort at Springfield:
I’m not entirely happy with it—that “S” in Springfield bothers me, but I couldn’t seem to fix it, so I guess we have to take what we can get.
But I am happy with the Lincoln picture. That’s better than a silhouette in a top hat.
Lincoln is looking left, because you always want to direct your viewer to the centre of the page—or in this case, the player. Assuming that players wear these patches on the top right (as you are looking at the player), then Mr. Lincoln is looking at the centre of the player.
“This place must be hot! They don’t need a big ad, or even correct spelling!”