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...plans for a supersonic transport have had as many ups and downs as a single-prop plane bulling its way through a thunderstorm. Last week President Johnson received the most optimistic report yet on the SST-a report that has suddenly brightened the plane's uncertain prospects. Prepared by the Commerce Department, it bases its favorable analysis of the 1,900-m.p.h., 150-passenger plane on several new economic and technical discoveries...
...Bogota, at the annual meeting of the 93-member International Air Transport Association-which the normally secretive outfit opened to the press for the first time in 20 years-airmen sounded sorry that they had ever heard of the SST. They fretted about sonic booms, expressed reluctance to give up the highly profitable jets that they now operate, and worried about the shattering effect that they fear supersonics will have on their balance sheets. "At $40 million," said Air India's Chairman J.R.D. Tata, "we would be paying five times as much for an aircraft doing only 21 times...
...trio of SST engineers tried hard to overcome doubts. Though many airmen have feared that the SSTs would be useless for medium-range flights because of the lengthy ascents they require to reach cruising altitudes, the engineers insisted that the planes will be practical down to flights of only 600 miles, will be able to operate productively for ten hours a day v. nine for the present jets. They held out promise that the sonic-boom problem will be solved eventually, possibly by delaying until high altitudes the crossover from subsonic to supersonic speeds. Most of all, they stressed...
...William P. Hildred, 71, who has served as I.A.T.A. director general for 18 years, announced that he will retire after next year. His replacement: Swedish Diplomat Knut Hammarskjöld, 42, a nephew of the late U.N. Secretary-General. Sir William had a word or two about the SST. "I hope," he said, "that I shall not live to see the damned things...
...that were not enough, Russia's General Evgeny Loginov, the head of Aeroflot, announced that Russia's planned SST "will be faster than the Anglo-French one," adding that "apparently we will not be late." Western experts do not believe that the Russians, who lean to conservative solutions of engineering problems, could possibly put out a competitive plane, but the appearance of a Russian plane before the West's would be a propaganda boon. A prototype of the British-French Concorde is not expected to fly until at least 1967, and a U.S. one not until well...