The force coefficients generated by the wing are «about two to three times greater than a static
airfoil wing used for large airplanes,» said Kamal Viswanath, a co-author who was a graduate research assistant working with Tafti when the work was performed and is
now a research engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Lab's Laboratories for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics.
The Boeing 2707 SST still managed to leave a legacy — its supercritical
airfoil is
now a standard feature on all jet aircraft, and the former Seattle SuperSonics basketball team was named thusly after the Seattle - based company first won a government contract to build the plane at Boeing's factory there.