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eppur_se_muova

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Wed Feb 5, 2025, 01:45 AM Feb 5

Interesting trivia: for years, the Osceola New Life Assembly of God held services underneath a full-size SST mockup.

The final-configuration Boeing 2707 mockup was sold to a museum and displayed at the SST Aviation Exhibit Center in Kissimmee, Florida, from 1973 to 1981. In 1983, the building, complete with SST, was purchased by the Faith World church. For years the Osceola New Life Assembly of God held services there with the airplane still standing above.[39] In 1990, the mock-up was sold to aircraft restorer Charles Bell, who moved it, in pieces, to Merritt Island, in order to preserve it while it waited for a new home as the church now wanted the space for expansion.[40] The forward fuselage was on display at the Hiller Aviation Museum of San Carlos, California, for many years, but in early 2013, was moved back to Seattle,[41] where it is undergoing restoration at the Museum of Flight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_2707#Legacy
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