Word: jumbos
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...single SST flying supersonic across the U.S., believes Shurcliff, would trail behind it a bang zone 50 miles wide that could destroy the peace of 20 million Americans. He also argues that competition from cheaper, larger "jumbo jets"-which will produce no sonic boom-could turn the SST venture into "a gigantic boomdoggle" with the taxpayers absorbing most of the loss. "We all believe in progress," he says for his group, "but some things just aren't progress. Aviation should be the servant of man, not his scourge...
...materials. Airplane manufacturers-who have, after all, been overcrowding cabins only because "high-density" seating is what the airlines demand-will have to prove to the FAA that all passengers can be evacuated from a new design in 90 sec., rather than the 120 sec. presently required. If necessary, Jumbo planes will do it by means of 72-in. by 42-in. exits, through which passengers can escape two abreast...
Heavy winds and a small, cement-hard field accentuated every Harvard weakness as the Crimson soccer team slopped to a 3-2 decision over Tufts in Medford yesterday. First-half goals by Ahmed Yehia, Lutz Hoeppner, and Geoff Keppel gave Harvard a cushion that survived two late-game Jumbo flukes in a contest that was neither as close nor as exciting as the final score...
...headstart may cut into the SST's market. (Three hundred of the 40 million dollar SST's must be sold to airlines before the project can pass the break-even point). Also, another plane will be in the air by 1971, a conventionally-designed, subsonic "jumbo jet." This jet will carry upwards of 500 passengers (against 280 for the SST) at 700 miles per hour without a sonic boom; its proven design will be safer; its large capacity will reduce airport congestion; and its fares will be cheaper--perhaps half those of the SST, which may be as much...
Competition from the jumbo jet aside, Shurcliff doubts that many passengers would want to pay the extra fare for a three-hour saving on a transatlantic flight. Improving the ground access to airports would accomplish the same time saving at much less cost, he feels. Oother investigators agree that consumer demand will be considerably less than current predictions. B. K. Lundbergh, a Swedish scientists, published a report last month on the problem of "dead time," the fact that the short flight time will make night flights to Europe extremely unpopular, since passengers would no longer be able to plan...