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He made the controversial decision in February to permit the Concorde, the joint British-French supersonic jet, to land in New York and Washington. New York State has moved to stop the landings, but Dulles Airport in Washington, being a federal facility, is bound by Coleman's ruling.
Coleman announced that the U.S. would allow Air France to fly two round trips a day from Paris to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and one round trip to Dulles International, 20 miles outside Washington.
Flying from London to Kennedy and Dulles, British Airways was given permission to make the same number of flights. The Secretary approved this limited schedule for only 16 months-long enough, he said, to determine whether the advantages of developing supersonic flight across the North Atlantic were outweighed by the...
Wisconsin's Senator William Proxmire angrily declared that Coleman "has decided to place the profits of a foreign airline ahead of the health of Americans living around Kennedy and Dulles airports." Congressional or court action would be necessary to keep the jet out of Dulles, a federal facility, but...
Small Impact. In pleading the Concorde's case, Gerald Kaufman, British Minister of State in the Department of Industry, pointed out that the FAA'S own study indicated that the environmental impact of the Concorde on New York would be small, its effect on the Dulles area all...