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...collision-avoidance system (CAS) that may reduce some of the risks of flying in the nation's increasingly crowded skies. Last year the U.S. had 38 aerial collisions, a 46% rise over 1967. In the years ahead, the risks will increase, as more planes-including jumbo jets and SSTs (see BUSINESS)-join the rapidly growing U.S. air fleet...
20th Century Sound. In a market of 500 SSTs, Boeing's profit will be a handsome $3.5 million on every $40 million aircraft sold. The SST will create 25,000 new jobs at Boeing, and another 25,000 among a host of subcontractors, chiefly General Electric, which has engines virtually ready to attach to Boeing's airframe. To forestall criticism that the SST will create few jobs in the ghettos, Boeing is seeking more black engineers...
...wide swath of thunderous sound, and would annoy groundlings, to say the least. Transportation Secretary Volpe last week promised that the SST will fly supersonically only over water, at least until the sonic boom is brought within "acceptable limits." Three countries-Sweden, Ireland and West Germany-have already banned SSTs over their territory. The FAA calculates that if all restrictions on supersonic flight were removed, the eventual market would jump from 500 SSTs to 1,200, adding $28 billion to sales. Thus there will always be a powerful temptation to remove the speed restrictions and subject Americans to what Boeing...
...cannot count on similar disasters overtaking both the Concorde and the Soviet SSTs.* Thus for reasons of prestige, employment, technology and high finance (an estimated $12 billion market over the next eight years), the U.S. still seems likely to build an SST. The Concorde, for which airlines have taken 74 "options," will probably reap the first harvest, because it is scheduled to be in service by 1971. Unless Nixon has an unanticipated change of heart, a fair bet is that the U.S. SST will be airborne...
...Most Western airlines are unlikely to buy the Soviet SSTs for reasons involving maintenance, operating economics and an unwillingness to rely on Russia for spare parts. Japan Air Lines, however, has signed an agreement with Russia's Aeroflot to share a trans-Siberian Tokyo-Moscow route, on which it will use the Soviet SSTs...