Word: sst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giant plane's wing, then tore through a rudder during a publicity flight. Since then, tests of XB-70 No. 1 have contributed aerodynamic and thermodynamic knowledge, including studies of the sonic-boom problem that are being used in the development of such heavyweight transports as the SST...
...freshman Democrat, he had the temerity to criticize Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson as dictatorial. A liberal on most issues, he has been conspicuously economy-minded during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. Proxmire often chips at public-works projects and appropriations for the space program, has attacked the Government-sponsored SST (supersonic transport) project as a "frill...
...experts had spent a decade vainly trying to develop a highly reliable midair collision-avoidance system (CAS). The number of "near misses" by U.S. aircraft had risen to more than 400 a year; the air traffic problem would soon be compounded by the arrival of jumbo jets and the SST. Alarmed, the Air Transport Association in January started an urgent program joining six avionics manufacturers* in the search for a solution. Last week the ATA triumphantly anounced the payoff; the blueprint for a CAS that could make the skies as safe as a sailing pond...
...then, however, the Franco-British SST Concorde should be setting commercial aviation records. A full-scale mock-up of the droop-snoot plane was a big attention-getter at the air show. Larger than the Russian TU-144 SST and carrying about half as many passengers as the American version, the Concorde is scheduled to make its first flight on Feb. 28, 1968. The estimated price of the plane has already jumped from $7,000,000 to $21 million. Even so, the partners hope that when the 1,450-m.p.h. Concorde goes into commercial use in 1971, it will snare...
...contract provides for cost sharing between the Government and the builders on a 90%-10% basis-but only for some expenses. Boeing will actually get only $726 million in cash-on-the-line federal funds. To appease a reluctant Congress, ten U.S. airlines currently holding options on the SST volunteered $1,000,000 in "earnest money" for each of the 52 planes they have ordered. Future "progress payments" from airlines should come to $1.35 billion; tax relief in the development phase will mean another $310 million. In all, by 1975 Boeing will have scraped up a fantastic $1.06 billion...