Word: sst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Growth for its own sake has somehow been confused with progress," Brower tells his audiences. And then, since the slogans are easy to ignore, he recites a list of some of the most outstanding mistakes planned in the name of progress--tapping the Yukon River for California, building an SST, or damming the Mekong in South Vietnam...
...adding a pair of stubby movable wings on the forward part of its fuselage. Goofs and glitches always creep into the early blueprints for any new aircraft, but lately Boeing President William M. Allen has been telling airline customers that engineering "miscalculations" were serious enough to send the SST "back to the drawing boards." They involve questions of aerodynamics, air flow into the plane's four engines, attitude control, engine placement and a considerable underestimate of necessary fuel space...
...have concluded that the plane would have a range of only 2,300 miles with 292 passengers, instead of the 4,600 miles that Boeing is contractually obliged to deliver. Allowing Boeing more time to revamp the plane to meet its performance pledge, said Major General Jewell C. Maxwell, SST Development Director of the Federal Aviation Administration, "will hasten the day when we will have a safe, successful and profitable SST in commercial service...
...program remains a prime target for a vociferous and growing minority. "A toy for the international jet set," Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire called it in a Senate speech last fall. In his budget for the fiscal year starting next July, President Johnson has already trimmed his request for SST funds to $223 million, an $80.6 million increase from fiscal 1968 but only half of the boost that the Administration proposed last summer. Slowing development further would mollify congressional economizers by permitting additional cuts...
Small Comfort. Such delay, however, could prove costly in the end by enabling the smaller and slower (1,450 m.p.h.) Anglo-French Concorde to snare more of the global SST market. At stake is a potential $40 billion in foreign orders for the U.S. plane, which would help the balance of payments. For the moment, the U.S. can take small comfort from delays abroad. Though the Concorde prototype was originally supposed to make its maiden flight next week at Toulouse, chances are that it will be another three months getting off the ground...