Word: sst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...striking, his horizons have been much widened by the success of the Boeing Co., the city's chief industry. Nowadays, as a simple matter of self-interest, he is usually impelled to consider Saudi Arabia's search for new aircraft, how the Russians are doing with their SST or the state of the Japanese economy...
Boeing is competing with Lockheed, the world's leading builder of military jet aircraft, for the Government contract to build a U.S. supersonic trans port. Last year, facing a September 1966 deadline for submitting plans to the Government, Boeing discovered that its SST involved some inferior engineering...
...span; the fuselage needed to be longer to increase passenger capacity. Working against the deadline, Boeing engineers went back to the drafting board. Last week the result of their work was publicly shown: a redesigned $2,000,000 plywood, steel and aluminum mock-up of the 1,850-m.p.h. SST. Boeing's SST, to say the least, is differ ent. Now 306 ft. long, or twice the length of a present-day 707, it will carry up to 350 passengers, shoot them as swiftly as an arrow from continent to continent. The bigger plane also means more fuel capacity...
...Government and industry experts, who are now weighing the Boeing and Lockheed proposals. With a decision deadline set for Jan. 1, 1967, the ultimate choice will be made by the President of the U.S. The winner will build the airplane that will represent the U.S. in the international SST rivalry. Until then, Boeing's SST-like Lockheed's which was displayed to the press last June-will be no more than a grounded mockup...
...third entry in the SST race-Russia-is staying silent about the price and progress on its TU-144. Chances are that the plane is costing the Soviets a lot more than they anticipated. But like the U.S., France and Britain, the U.S.S.R. undoubtedly knows that it cannot turn its back on an aircraft that offers a potential $50 billion market...