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...three fuselage doors. To offer performance comparable to STOL (short takeoff and landing) planes such as the $85,000 U.S.-made Helio Twin Courier, the Islander has outsized wings that permit takeoffs in a bare 520 ft., landings at 65 m.p.h. All in all, the Islander offers only one frill; though one big engine would theoretically offer reliability enough, the plane has two 260-h.p. Lycoming engines to allow for the customer confidence factor. Measured by customer response, that was a wise decision...
...SUPERSONIC TRANSPORT. The SST is much more than a flying frill. The $142 million that Congress authorized for it this year will go far to improve the U.S.'s worst international financial problem: the balance of payments. Aircraft make up the nation's second biggest export (after food), and the U.S. has sold $2.4 billion worth of commercial jets to foreign buyers. The SST market will be much richer-estimates run to $40 billion over 20 years. Hoping to crack it, the Soviets and a British-French consortium are already building SSTs, and the U.S. has to hustle...
...criticize Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson as dictatorial. A liberal on most issues, he has been conspicuously economy-minded during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. Proxmire often chips at public-works projects and appropriations for the space program, has attacked the Government-sponsored SST (supersonic transport) project as a "frill...
There is a pleasant conspiracy aloft these days, namely that although the air lines fly basically the same planes with the same equipment in the same time over the same routes, each airline is somehow distinctly and deliciously different. The sky's the limit for any frill or frippery, from gourmet menus to miniskirted hostesses, that will make the passenger exclaim, "Vive la difference...
...program will suffer cutbacks in favor of any spending for the B-2707. Seeking a $200 million supplemental appropriation for SST design work last August, the White House anticipated routine approval. Instead, Wisconsin's William Proxmire led an attack on the project, damned it as "a jet-set frill," finally wound up on the short end of a vote more narrow than anyone expected. Voting with Proxmire, among others, were both Robert and Teddy Kennedy-despite the fact that their brother had been the one who put the U.S. into the SST race in the first place...