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...Sonic Boon. Another chamber shows five screens arranged in the shape of a cross. In the most effective sequence, an African hunter peers out at the jungle, spear in hand, searching the waters for a crocodile. Around him the night seethes ominously. When at last he kills his quarry, the screens abruptly fill with white-eyed death masks that seem, for once, as terrifying to the viewer as they must be to the native. Labyrinth's narration is sometimes painfully portentous: "The hardest place to look is inside yourself, but that is where you will find the beast...
Calculating the potential market for the SST with conservative care, the FAA figured that sonic-boom problems would limit the aircraft to routes over oceans and sparsely populated areas. On that basis, it predicted sales of 500 planes, at $40 million each, by 1990. By the time the first SST is delivered to an airline in late 1974, the cost of building two prototypes, production facilities and parts inventories will total some $4.5 billion, including $3.43 billion at Boeing, which is assembling the airframe, and $1.07 billion at engine-building...
...found himself representing the area in which the jetport was to be built, he consulted engineers, airplane people and technicians of all sorts--and finally wrote a bill sticking the jetport on someone else's constituency. Thus he had saved his voters from low-flying planes, massive traffic and sonic booms--in short, performed a first-class public service...
Meanwhile, Boeing is going ahead as best it can. The B-2707 still has some design problems; foremost among them is the sonic booms it will create whizzing along at Mach 2.7 and the airport noise its engines will cause. But Boeing is confident that its swing wing, which folds back along the fuselage at 1,800 m.p.h. and opens out at slower subsonic speeds, may solve much of the boom and vvrrooom. And even while some engineers work at refinements such as these, others are already seriously at work on a new generation of jets to eventually follow. They...
...long-range, 1,800-m.p.h. model to be used in overseas flights. President Johnson is expected to make the final decision about Jan. 1. The FAA also ordered a quick investigation of whether either design could be adapted into a medium-size SST that would avoid the sonic boom that may well restrict the larger plane from flying over land routes. For that study, the FAA gave a $65,000 contract to North American Aviation...