Word: sst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SST DICH GEH'N (Metronome). France's Charles Aznavour sings in German-and very well...
Bigger Competitor. Lockheed's rival in the competition is Boeing Co., which has not won a major military plane or missile award since 1958. Boeing is betting on a swing-wing model whose wings tuck back at high speed and open out for landings. Called the Boeing SST 733, it could achieve the same speed and stratospheric altitude as Lockheed's 2000. Boeing is building a mockup, plans to display it around September. The plane has just undergone major modifications, making it heavier (300 tons v. Lockheed's 250 tons), longer...
...mounted engines would buffet and overheat the tail. Designers moved the engines to the underside of an enlarged tail. That, in turn, enabled them to increase the area of the pivoting wing so that the plane could take off and land more slowly and silently. With that, said Boeing SST Engineering Director H. W. Withington last week, "Lockheed no longer has us beaten, as it thought it did last year." Replied Lockheed President Daniel J. Haughton: "The race will be close...
Even at that price, at least 70 must be sold to cover development costs, and the Concorde is already lagging in the sales race. So far, a dozen carriers have taken options on 52 Concordes, including 23 by TWA, Pan Am, Continental, Eastern and American Airlines. Though the U.S. SST does not yet have a builder-Washington will decide between Boeing and Lockheed by year's end-and will not be in service until 1974, 22 airlines have plunked down $9.6 million in deposits for 96 bigger (250 passengers) and faster (1,850 m.p.h.) American supersonics...
...With the SST in the offing, the monster passenger plane such as the 747 is considered by some to be little more than an interim aircraft. Pan American clearly had this in mind when it specified that Boeing construct its 747 planes strong enough to be converted into cargo carriers. Actually, the 747 and the SST will likely complement each other. For passengers who want to fly a long distance in a supersonic hurry, the SST will be available at premium rates; but such will be the low operating costs of the 747 that a customer who is willing...