Word: sst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being developed at present. The Anglo-French Concorde, of which ten are now flying, is such a fuel-gulping money loser that no more are on order and five have been left unsold. NASA and U.S. planemakers are still conducting supersonic research on a modest scale, but an American SST is not expected before the 1990s, and then only if the world economy is buoyant...
...SST bites the Big Apple
...France Flight 001 sliced through the morning mist. The approach and landing were loud enough to drown out the protests of 15 pickets forlornly shouting "Stop the SST!" by an expressway ramp outside the terminal, but the noise level was a comfortable 14 decibels below the limit set by the Federal Aviation Administration. Moments earlier a Boeing 707 had registered slightly louder on a routine approach. Two minutes and five seconds after Flight 001 landed, British Airways Flight 171 touched down. The two Concordes then taxied to the terminal in a kind of victory parade, celebrating the inauguration of supersonic...
...crew-cut former test pilot who headed the federal su personic transport program; of a heart attack; in Winston-Salem, N.C. Magruder was a test pilot for the B-52 bomber and played a major role in developing the L-1011 airbus. Although he argued forcefully for the SST, the program was defeated in 1971, and he became a special technology consultant to President Nixon, spurring increased Government fund- ing for mass transit, energy research and highway safety projects. In 1973 Magruder resigned to become executive vice president of Piedmont Aviation...
There were British, American, French, Swedish and Israeli warplanes, a Soviet SST and even a new Polish crop duster, a jet that can fly only 100 m.p.h. But the star of Paris' biennial Air Show was Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 70, whose husband Charles touched down at Le Bourget airport 50 years ago at the end of his epic transatlantic flight. With her son Scott, she made an appearance for the dedication of a memorial to Lindy. Displaying a delicate sense of the appropriate, Transportation Secretary Brock Adams, in attendance to open the U.S. pavilion at the show, gallantly passed...