Boeing E-14 Blackbox

The Boeing E-14 Blackbox is an eight seat, single engined and V-Tail light jet that was developed by Boeing and was first operated by an anonymous private jet company in 1992.

Development
Already the development beginned in 1984, the Boeing E-14 Blackbox was originally to be a stealth fighter airplane with a design inspired by the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk. The second prototype was similar to the first idea but with a new design of cockpit. The third prototype made a mockup on it's design, making the fuselage to suffer major changes like streching quite a bit and redesign, the wings' design became familiar that today we know and it got a VTOL engine on the fuselage but the two engines of the first two prototypes are still preserved but with new positions to make room for the VTOL engine and an extra engine in front of the tail making the Boeing E-14 Blackbox's third prototype to become a trijet. The final design of the Boeing E-14 Blackbox is an eight seater private or VIP jet, losing the VTOL engine and the other two engines on the wings and turning it's nose pointed into a bit rounded nearly a year before first flown in 1989.