Word: sst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Next: SST. Lockheed and Boeing are still locked in lethal competition for Government approval (and subsidies) of a supersonic transport design. To the winner, that approval will be worth at least $10 billion; a decision by President Johnson is expected this year. In their lobbying efforts, Boeing people like to point out that Lockheed has never made a pure-jet commercial passenger plane; Lockheed representatives retort that Boeing has never made a supersonic plane of any sort...
...year, supersonic aircraft swept over Oklahoma City, subjecting its inhabitants to eight sonic booms a day. It was part of an elaborate test conducted by the Federal Aviation Agency to discover just how much annoyance and damage the booms will cause groundlings, if and when a projected supersonic transport (SST) is ever built and put into full service by the nation's airlines...
...every four felt that he could not. Still, when those who were uncertain about the advisability of supersonic planes were reminded that the French, British and Russians were already working on them, eight out of ten patriotically agreed that the U.S. should proceed with an SST...
...SST ever replaces conventional jetliners, eight booms a day will be only a foretaste; cities will get scores of booms daily, and they will not be spared at night. It may some day be possible to design supersonic aircraft so that their booms will be less annoying and damaging, but this is by no means certain. The Federal Aviation Agency summed up by urging more study-an amber rather than a green light to the supersonic...
Monroney is now proposing that the Administration underwrite a major part of the SST prototype-development program (the original stand of the U.S. airframe makers), wants to see both a Boeing and a Lockheed prototype. After flight tests and evaluation of the prototypes, the government would make its choice and the winning company would then build production-line ships with its own risk capital; the government would recover its development costs through a royalty arrangement. Washington has an increasingly powerful motivation for giving the go-ahead: if the SST market is forfeited to the British and French, who seem...