Word: sst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...testing phases of a project. It is then that thousands of specialists have to draw patterns, cast molds, make tools ?and build, test out and put together countless parts. Once a craft goes into production, machines can take over a much bigger part of the work. Because the SST was at a stage in which it had high manpower requirements, the Senate vote last week was a severe shock to the industry...
...possible that the SST will rise again, if some future Congress decides that it is an economic or political necessity. Congress may well be forced to such a decision by international competition in the supersonic field. Two competitive planes, the Anglo-French Concorde and the Soviet TU-144, have been undergoing test flights for more than a year. Although British and French officials are still debating whether to continue bankrolling the Concorde, it is scheduled to begin commercial service in 1974. The Soviet TU-144 may make a dramatic appearance at the European Air Show this...
From its inception as a largely Government-funded experiment in 1963, America's SST has drawn critical fire. No less a Jovian figure than Charles Lindbergh publicly questioned its advisability, and scientists were debating its possible faults right up to the moment of the vote. Although some of the rhetoric was wrapped in unconscionably scary language, there were at least two reasonable grounds on which to question the plane's viability. Ecologically, the SST would have been a noise polluter unless equipped with extra gear that would severely reduce its payload. Economically, it could have been an aerial Edsel...
...SST became the focus of the rising public resistance against products that might harm the environment and against the expenditure of vast sums to bankroll "progress" that could be enjoyed only by the well off. Consumer activists have attacked products of industries as varied as autos and food. Yet no industry has been affected quite so dramatically as aerospace...
...company, which recently dropped its lease on one major assembly plant and turned two others into storage space, sees little chance to grow rapidly. The cancellation of the SST, which company designers labored on for more than a decade, casts a new pall over its future. The loss of the SST was a painful psychological blow as well as an economic setback. For the first time since the advent of jet travel, Boeing was deprived of work on "the big new plane" that the rest of the world would soon be discussing. The cancellation also meant the partial breakup...