Word: sst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neill's children have converted him on other issues: against the SST, for the 18-year-old vote. He blasts campus violence as a sure way to anger Middle America, a theme he pounds in campus speeches. But rational dissent is something else: "There is no comparison with the knowledge of this generation and that of my own at that...
...While SST flights may be banned from populated areas, some ecologists fear that economic necessity may reverse this pattern. If this happens, they say, sonic booms generated as SSTs fly at speeds in excess of the speed of sound could upset people who do delicate work (brain surgeons) and may also harm persons with nervous ailments...
Proponents of the SST point out that the aircraft represents a technological advance in aviation, with valuable spin-offs for other segments of the economy. They also stress that every effort is being made to make the aircraft environmentally compatible. A major blast against SST critics was delivered recently in a trade journal article by Wayne W. Parrish, aviation editor of Ziff-Davis Publishing. Said Parrish of the yet-to-be-flown U.S. SST: "There is nothing quite so convenient as a target that hasn't been seen or heard...
Atlantic River. All the same, SST defenders have still not offered convincing proposals for dealing with the supersonics' most pressing problem: ear-shattering "sideline" noise generated at takeoff and landing. According to one estimate, the airport roar of a single SST will match that of five jumbo jets. Proposed solutions to sideline noise and sonic boom have thus far been less than encouraging. Some scientists have proposed recycling jet engine exhausts to reduce noise. Others have suggested powerful electrostatic fields to ionize and brush aside air molecules before they can pile up and form boom-producing shock waves...
...spite of all the flack, the SST program last week received a substantial boost when the House Appropriations Committee approved the $290 million requested for further development. Congress, reflecting on the millions already sunk into the aircraft, may well vote for continued, if reduced funding. But whether the SST will, in the words of Halaby, "turn the Atlantic into a river and the Pacific into a lake," or turn both into an ecological quagmire, remains to be seen. At about $40 million per plane (v. $23 million per jumbo jet), the U.S. SST has also left many people wondering whether...