Word: sst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Granting of limited service to the Concorde SST [Jan. 19] would be akin to planting a small bomb in Times Square to see if its effect were boon or bane...
Those arguments did not deter the Soviets, who were hard at work on their TU-144, or the French and British, who had already ridden out an SST crisis...
...their SSTs (nicknamed "Concordski" by Westerners because of design features obviously copied from the British-French plane) into service on a domestic cargo and mail run from Moscow to the central Asian city of Alma-Ata. The Concorde is not far behind. The French plan to start SST service later this month from Paris to the Senegalese capital of Dakar (2,860 miles) and then on to Rio de Janeiro (another 3,189 miles). At the same time, Britain will launch Concorde flights from London's Heathrow for the 3,162-mile trip to the oil-rich island...
Concorde opponents have a new ally in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Reversing its earlier position in favor of allowing limited SST flights into the U.S., the EPA last month declared that environmental considerations made flights into New York's J.F.K. "undesirable," and those into Washington's Dulles "increasingly questionable." At last week's hearing, Roger Strelow, EPA assistant administrator for air and waste management, told Coleman that "introduction of Concorde service runs directly counter to the noise abatement and other environmental policies and programs of the U.S." He was backed by New York Conservative Senator James...
Still, some U.S. airplane manufacturers hope that the Concorde gets the green light at U.S. airports. They feel that the start of Concorde service would spur interest in their own efforts to develop an economical, environmentally acceptable SST, which the U.S. could build and fly by the 1990s. Considering the fact that no one is really sure about the Concorde's adverse effects on the environment, many airline executives also note that it would simply be unfair-and inimical to good international relations-to keep...