Word: sst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bogota, at the annual meeting of the 93-member International Air Transport Association-which the normally secretive outfit opened to the press for the first time in 20 years-airmen sounded sorry that they had ever heard of the SST. They fretted about sonic booms, expressed reluctance to give up the highly profitable jets that they now operate, and worried about the shattering effect that they fear supersonics will have on their balance sheets. "At $40 million," said Air India's Chairman J.R.D. Tata, "we would be paying five times as much for an aircraft doing only 21 times...
Nearly two dozen of the world's airlines, from Pan American to tiny Aeronaves de Mexico, have hopefully placed 140 orders for either an American or a British-French supersonic transport. Considering the SST's list of problems, that's quite a bit of hope. Rarely has the development of a new product been more beset by rising costs, clamor and competition...
...plane has so far got exactly nowhere. Now the big argument seems to be whether it is really practicable in its proposed form. Aviation Consultant William Littlewood recently told a Washington aeronautical conference that ground dwellers cannot adjust to the SST's shattering sonic boom, suggested "careful routing" of the planes at a cost in time and fuel. Last week Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, the Lockheed vice president who designed both the U-2 and the A11, said as he received an achievement award from the National Aviation Club: "I am very concerned about the sonic boom where...
...that were not enough, Russia's General Evgeny Loginov, the head of Aeroflot, announced that Russia's planned SST "will be faster than the Anglo-French one," adding that "apparently we will not be late." Western experts do not believe that the Russians, who lean to conservative solutions of engineering problems, could possibly put out a competitive plane, but the appearance of a Russian plane before the West's would be a propaganda boon. A prototype of the British-French Concorde is not expected to fly until at least 1967, and a U.S. one not until well...
Instead of letting Halaby go ahead, President Johnson stepped in and, in effect, canceled the FAA-directed program. He gave the responsibility for supervising the building of an American SST to an advisory group headed by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Aside from being dissatisfied with the FAA's performance so far, the President felt that Congress would not approve appropriations for both the poverty program and the SST at the same time-particularly since the aviation industry is balking at paying even 10% of the SST cost. He therefore chose to delay the SST. The U.S. is already...