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...year, supersonic aircraft swept over Oklahoma City, subjecting its inhabitants to eight sonic booms a day. It was part of an elaborate test conducted by the Federal Aviation Agency to discover just how much annoyance and damage the booms will cause groundlings, if and when a projected supersonic transport (SST) is ever built and put into full service by the nation's airlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: Learning to Love the Boom | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...every four felt that he could not. Still, when those who were uncertain about the advisability of supersonic planes were reminded that the French, British and Russians were already working on them, eight out of ten patriotically agreed that the U.S. should proceed with an SST...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: Learning to Love the Boom | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

Government and industry have been spending $2,000,000 a month for research on the SST, about 75% of it Government funds. Work on the drawing boards and in the wind tunnels has produced important design improvements in both the SST's airframe (for which Boeing and Lockheed are competing) and engines (General Electric v. Pratt & Whitney). The airframe makers have discovered that a relatively small reduction in airframe weight produces a disproportionately larger increase in payload; a 1% reduction, for example, would increase the payload by 10%. National Aeronautics and Space Administration research has given increased hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Push for the SST | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...this has convinced many previously hesitant airline officials that the plane is commercially practical, and has turned the congressional head wind against the SST into a tail wind. "My gloom has been dispelled," says Mike Monroney, chairman of the Senate Aviation Subcommittee, who less than two years ago was nearly ready to abandon the SST. "I am convinced that it is now time to get our SST off the drawing board." Says Boeing President William M. Allen: "Boeing would be prepared to implement a construction program tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Push for the SST | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

Monroney is now proposing that the Administration underwrite a major part of the SST prototype-development program (the original stand of the U.S. airframe makers), wants to see both a Boeing and a Lockheed prototype. After flight tests and evaluation of the prototypes, the government would make its choice and the winning company would then build production-line ships with its own risk capital; the government would recover its development costs through a royalty arrangement. Washington has an increasingly powerful motivation for giving the go-ahead: if the SST market is forfeited to the British and French, who seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Push for the SST | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

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