Word: franco-british
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...cuts trans-atlantic air travel from seven hours to 3%, and can lower the time for a San Francisco-Tokyo run from 11% hours to seven. But the Concorde ads may be prematurely optimistic. The plane has not yet received permission to serve U.S. airports, and unless it does, Franco-British dreams of a new era in air travel may never get very far off the ground...
...program got under way, it decided that Britain could not afford the project and tried to bow out. It changed its mind only after it became clear that the French might sue Britain in the International Court of Justice for failing to live up to the terms of the Franco-British agreement...
...speculated that the Concorde's high-altitude emissions of nitrogen oxides could contribute significantly to the destruction of the ozone layer that screens the earth from an overdose of the sun's ultraviolet rays. Using these reports, the Federal Aviation Administration estimates that simply granting the pending Franco-British request for six flights a day could lead to 200 additional cases of skin cancer a year...
There is good reason for the Franco-British concern. Sales of Concordes, which cost some $60 million apiece, have been disappointingly slow. Financially strapped U.S. airlines withdrew their options to purchase the planes three years ago, and only Iran and China have expressed interest in buying any of the three planes remaining unsold out of the initial production run of 16 (the British and French...
...press. Commented Le Monde: "The pilots have an excellent image. Do they have to spoil it through an excess of greed?" What most bothers French aviation men is the possibility that a prolonged suspension will eat up reserves earmarked for such new purchases as the Boeing 747 and the Franco-British Concorde...