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...SUPERSONIC TRANSPORT. The SST is much more than a flying frill. The $142 million that Congress authorized for it this year will go far to improve the U.S.'s worst international financial problem: the balance of payments. Aircraft make up the nation's second biggest export (after food), and the U.S. has sold $2.4 billion worth of commercial jets to foreign buyers. The SST market will be much richer-estimates run to $40 billion over 20 years. Hoping to crack it, the Soviets and a British-French consortium are already building SSTs, and the U.S. has to hustle...
...Management Program. As a trainee, Mark has held positions in the company's Flight Propulsion Division as Supervisor, Sundry Receivables, Accounts Payable, and Supervisor, Cashiering & Management Control and Reporting. His six-month assignments have included supervision of cashiers at G.E.'s Ohio and Massachusetts facilities; cost analysis responsibility on SST and TF39 programs, and responsibility for working funds at G.E. plants in New Mexico, Vermont, and New Hampshire...
Servant or Scourge? The most determined opponent of sonic boom-and of the nation's plans to build a supersonic transport (SST)-is Harvard Physicist William Shurcliff, 58, who worked on the atomic bomb with Vannevar Bush, and is now senior research associate at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. Six months ago, Shurcliff, with nine friends, founded the Citizen's League Against the Sonic Boom, and membership has since grown to 1,320 in 45 states. In letters to members and newspaper ads, Shurcliff has propounded his fears that the SST might ultimately be permitted to fly at supersonic...
...single SST flying supersonic across the U.S., believes Shurcliff, would trail behind it a bang zone 50 miles wide that could destroy the peace of 20 million Americans. He also argues that competition from cheaper, larger "jumbo jets"-which will produce no sonic boom-could turn the SST venture into "a gigantic boomdoggle" with the taxpayers absorbing most of the loss. "We all believe in progress," he says for his group, "but some things just aren't progress. Aviation should be the servant of man, not his scourge...
...hopeful note is that altitude attenuates the boom. The SST will take off and land at subsonic speeds, and officials believe that if the plane cruises at over 60,000 ft., the noise would be muted to a thunderlike rumble. One thing Santa Barbara has made clear: no city is likely to tolerate being bombarded night and day by unexpected thunderclaps. The answer must be found reasonably soon. The Anglo-French supersonic Concorde is scheduled to begin flights before next spring, and the SST is expected to fly four years later...