Word: sst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prestige generated by Lockheed's high-flying All certainly helped to keep the company in the race, and clearly gave it the edge over North American, which also submitted a delta-wing design. But when it came to the engines that will power the SST, the choice was considerably less clear. The FAA experts favor the G.E. power plant, but most of the airlines like the United Aircraft engine best; both are fairly conventional jet engines with extremely high thrust. Some lines, notably National, opted for the Curtiss-Wright design, which is the most advanced of the three...
...will probably compel him to extend the competition for another year. During this time no prototypes will be built, but each contestant will produce more detailed studies to enable the FAA and the airlines to make a final choice. Though the extension may delay the date when an American SST enters commercial service to 1973, two years later than the already abuilding Anglo-French Concorde, most U.S. aviation experts feel that the additional study will help avoid costly mistakes...
...their $500 million program to develop their own supersonic airliner, the needle-nosed Concorde. Last week, in a surprise turnabout, the British and French state-owned airlines-BOAC and Air France-placed six orders apiece for the rival U.S. supersonic transport. Though the exact design of the American SST has not yet been determined, the plane will definitely be bigger and faster, and will have a longer range than the Mach 2.2 Concorde. The British-French move not only gave a heartening boost to the U.S. project but stirred new doubts about the future of the Concorde. The British government...
...among the U.S. designs is in the wings. Drawing on its experience as builder of the Air Force's RS-70, which will be rolled out within the next two months, North American has used the combination of a small stabilizing fin and a delta-wing for its SST design. Lockheed's proposal features a delta-wing design similar to the Concorde's. Boeing's design is the most advanced, employing a "variable-sweep" wing that can be adjusted to different settings. By extending its wings, Boeing's SST could take off and land...
...SST proposals-along with the power-plant proposals submitted by General Electric, United Aircraft and Curtiss-Wright-will be evaluated by a team of 210 Government aeronautical experts, will also be studied by the nation's airlines. If the FAA decides that the designs of one planemaker and one enginemaker are markedly superior to all others, the final contracts will be awarded in May. Otherwise the two leaders in each category will be placed in a one-year design competition to decide the winners. Even if contracts are awarded in May, the U.S. can hardly hope...