Word: mach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With the other services talking about Mach 3 airplanes and ICBMs, he doesn't want anyone to think the Corps is going to sleep on its LSTs and helicopters," explained a high-ranking marine. It was not likely-not after the press conference held last week by Lieut. General Wallace Martin Greene Jr., 55, who had just been named by President Kennedy to replace General David M. Shoup as Marine Corps commandant...
...Line. American, Braniff and Mohawk airlines recently ordered a total of 31 British Aircraft Corp. BAC One-Eleven short-range jet transports worth $83.7 million. At the other end of the jet spectrum, among the big long distance models, Continental Air Lines fortnight ago signed up for three Concorde Mach 2.2 supersonic jet trans ports being built by a British-French consortium for delivery beginning in 1970. Pan Am has already ordered six Concordes - and TWA seems certain to follow. The orders are a form of insurance by the U.S. airlines to ensure them a place in line...
...been done since. No funds have yet been appropriated; even after they are, a long process of initial design competition, proposals and discussions must follow. In fact, there is still a major division over the crucial question of how fast a plane to build. The airframe makers want a Mach 3 jet (2,000 m.p.h.) that will leapfrog the Mach 2.2 Concorde; National Airlines President Lewis Maytag Jr. and American President C. R. Smith both want slower planes; and Federal Aviation Agency Administrator Najeeb Halaby has not made up his mind...
...timing was obviously triggered by what he called "competition from across the Atlantic." Only the day before, Pan American World Airways' crafty President Juan Trippe, 63, announced that he had ordered six supersonic Concordes from a government-sponsored Anglo-French consortium. The needle-nosed Concordes will fly at Mach 2.2 (or 2.2 times the speed of sound), are expected to enter commercial service in 1968. (Trippe went after the Concorde at the urging of Pan Am's distinguished aviation consultant, Charles A. Lindbergh...
...details about the U.S. supersonic project, but what he did say sounded encouraging to U.S. industry leaders. He called for an open competition among U.S. airframe and engine makers to design an SST that would fly at "the end of the '60s at a speed faster than Mach 2." Kennedy is expected to ask Congress this summer for a supplemental appropriation of $100 million or more to get the program started at once. The total development costs for an SST may run as high as $2 billion, most of which will be advanced by the Government...