Word: sst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...create window-shattering sonic booms all across the countryside, and possibly even leave enough carbon dioxide in the upper layers of the atmosphere to change the earth's climate. Now Robert T. Jones of NASA'S Ames Research Center, near San Francisco, has suggested a radical new SST design that he claims would overcome most of these objections. It would also be one of the oddest looking planes ever to take...
According to DOT Secretary John Volpe, 50,000 copies of SST-T-T have been distributed to educators as part of the department's Interagency Aircraft
Like a vapor trail in a clear winter sky, a trace of the supersonic transport lingers on. Congress shot down the SST last spring after a titanic propaganda battle between environmentalists and the aerospace industry. But one weapon in the fight, a pro-SST primer published in 1969, is still being used in some of the nation's elementary schools...
Teacher's Guide for SST-T-T (Sound, Sense, Today, Tomorrow, Thereafter), a 7 3-page booklet published by the Department of Transportation, contains suggested writing and research assignments and fables aimed at promoting supersonic travel. The booklet's cast of characters includes Marita the Supersonic Pussycat (the first feline to fly to Paris on the SST), Deci Belle (a "smooth chick with good looks" who "was attracted to noise -the louder the better"), and The House That Had to Move ("Now the airport has room to grow. More jets can do their job of helping people travel...
...long-range transports to Egyptair. A West German building contractor has bought a giant Soviet KA-26 helicopter. Aviaexport's man in West Germany reports that he is negotiating to sell a 250-passenger TU-154 jet to a local travel combine. Now that plans for an American SST have been scrapped, some Western airline executives have been visiting Moscow to examine the TU-144 supersonic transport, which is scheduled to begin regular flights inside Russia next year...