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...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...
...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...
...meekly labeled his next symphony "A Soviet Artist's Reply to Just Criticism." Now, in its first American recording, the Fourth is worth hearing mainly to find out what all the fuss was about. Whatever its polemic content may be, it sounds clumsily Mahlerian and full of papier-maché grandeur...
...airframe makers to pool their skills, the result might give the airlines a plane whose performance and economy would make it worthwhile for the airlines to wait. The U.S. would still have to get its price right. According to current industry estimates, an American SST Mach 2 would cost about $12 million to $15 million apiece, while a Mach 3 would cost $20 million. The British and French are planning to sell the Concorde for less than $10 million. One difference is that the two European governments donated $500 million outright to develop the Concorde, while the U.S. government expects...