Word: sst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supersonic transport due aloft in the mid-'70s. Roomier than the Concorde (292 passengers v. 132) and faster (1,800 v. 1,450 m.p.h.), the Boeing 2707 has already attracted 125 options from 26 interested airlines. While the British and French admit that the American SST will eventually dominate the North Atlantic-currently accounting for 42% of all international air travel-they argue that there will be plenty of room for their smaller plane on less traveled routes, such as London-Sydney and Paris-Buenos Aires. A potential challenge on these routes, however, may come from the Russians...
...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...
Eastern will perform the maintenance and training role for both carriers' Concordes, the Anglo-French SST that will be rolled out publicly next week in preparation for 1971 delivery. Eastern will probably also service the Boeing SST when it becomes operational in 1974. In addition, the airlines plan to get extra mileage out of their respective peak traffic seasons by leasing jumbo jets from each other. During its heavy winter runs to Florida and Mexico, for example, Eastern might use TWA planes; TWA in turn could add Eastern jumbos on its busy summertime transatlantic flights...
...Management Program. As a trainee, Mark has held positions in the company's Flight Propulsion Division as Supervisor, Sundry Receivables, Accounts Payable, and Supervisor, Cashiering & Management Control and Reporting. His six-month assignments have included supervision of cashiers at G.E.'s Ohio and Massachusetts facilities; cost analysis responsibility on SST and TF39 programs, and responsibility for working funds at G.E. plants in New Mexico, Vermont, and New Hampshire...
...hopeful note is that altitude attenuates the boom. The SST will take off and land at subsonic speeds, and officials believe that if the plane cruises at over 60,000 ft., the noise would be muted to a thunderlike rumble. One thing Santa Barbara has made clear: no city is likely to tolerate being bombarded night and day by unexpected thunderclaps. The answer must be found reasonably soon. The Anglo-French supersonic Concorde is scheduled to begin flights before next spring, and the SST is expected to fly four years later...