Word: sst
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Boeing is competing with Lockheed, the world's leading builder of military jet aircraft, for the Government contract to build a U.S. supersonic trans port. Last year, facing a September 1966 deadline for submitting plans to the Government, Boeing discovered that its SST involved some inferior engineering...
...span; the fuselage needed to be longer to increase passenger capacity. Working against the deadline, Boeing engineers went back to the drafting board. Last week the result of their work was publicly shown: a redesigned $2,000,000 plywood, steel and aluminum mock-up of the 1,850-m.p.h. SST. Boeing's SST, to say the least, is differ ent. Now 306 ft. long, or twice the length of a present-day 707, it will carry up to 350 passengers, shoot them as swiftly as an arrow from continent to continent. The bigger plane also means more fuel capacity...
...British and French hope to fly a prototype Concorde in February 1968, test a second prototype in the summer of '68, and have their SST operational by 1971. The British Aircraft Corp. is building the nose and tail sections for the 1,450 m.p.h., 140-passenger Con corde. Britain's Bristol Siddeley is mak ing the engine. France's Sud-Aviation is responsible for the wings and midsection. To break even, the builders will have to sell about 140 Concordes at $16 million each; already 60 are on order, including eight for Pan Am, six apiece...
...SST is still on the drawing boards, but rival airframe and engine makers have submitted plans to the FAA for approval later this year. Competing for the airframe contract are Lockheed and Boeing; for the engine job, General Electric and Pratt & Whitney. Lockheed offers a double-delta-wing design. Boeing proposes a swing-wing configuration. Both companies promise a plane capable of carrying 300 passengers at a cruising speed of 1,850 m.p.h. at 70,000 ft. The U.S. SST will sell at $35 million, and 250 planes is the break-even point...
...third entry in the SST race-Russia-is staying silent about the price and progress on its TU-144. Chances are that the plane is costing the Soviets a lot more than they anticipated. But like the U.S., France and Britain, the U.S.S.R. undoubtedly knows that it cannot turn its back on an aircraft that offers a potential $50 billion market...